According to Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy in the square in Herat, four dead bodies were brought in, one was left in the square, and the other three were then taken elsewhere. Seddiqi said that according to the Taliban, the four participated in the abduction and were killed by the police.
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Prison Minister Nourruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and a hardliner in Islamic law, told the AP this week that penalties, such as cutting hands on thieves, will be carried out again as part of the fight against crime. According to him, such a punishment has a deterrent effect and is therefore necessary.
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Turabi, who was at the birth of the Taliban, was already Minister of Justice in the 1990s and head of the Office for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. At that time, patrols were walking the streets to see if men had their beards uncut, women were veiled, and they were pulling music cassettes out of their cars and hanging the tapes on trees or signs. At that time, it was also publicly executed.
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In an interview with a journalist for the AP Turabi agency, he said: “We have changed compared to the past.” According to him, the Taliban should, for example, allow television, mobile phones or videos. However, this is not an attempt to satisfy the inhabitants. People could take or record the executions and spread these shots, which would deepen their deterrent effect.
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