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Twelve people were flogged by the Taliban in front of hundreds of spectators

Those punished in the city of Pul Alam received between 21 and 39 lashes each on Wednesday after being convicted by a local court of theft and adultery, said an official from the governor’s office in Logar province, where the killing took place. flogging.

Hundreds of spectators showed up at the sports stadium after being invited to witness the flogging by the city governor, an invitation that was also spread on social media.

The Taliban recently resumed the brutal form of punishment that was common when the group last ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.

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