News Desk- Despite ongoing condemnation from international human rights organizations over the use of corporal punishment and torture, the Taliban has continued to carry out public floggings during its four years in power, describing such acts as “a command of Islamic Sharia.”

According to the Taliban-controlled Supreme Court, the Anti-Narcotics Court in Kabul sentenced six individuals to flogging on Sunday, October 5, for drug trafficking and sales.

Meanwhile, the Kabul Primary Court sentenced a woman and a man to 35 lashes and two years in prison each, after accusing them of “running away from home.”

Earlier, on October 2, the Taliban announced that within one week, 18 people — including seven women — were flogged in various Afghan provinces, such as Khost, Kapisa, and Maidan Wardak, under different pretexts.

Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban has enforced increasingly hardline policies, particularly targeting women. These restrictions have severely curtailed women’s rights and freedoms across nearly every aspect of public and private life in Afghanistan.