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These executions took place in three cities across the country, before tens of thousands of spectators on Friday. This was ...
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court defended the public execution of four men, rejecting UN condemnation and stating it was in line ...
Public executions were common under Taliban rule (1996–2001), often held in sports stadiums before large crowds ...
UN experts on Thursday urged Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to immediately impose a moratorium on inhumane punishments, including capital and corporal punishments, in response to public executions ...
A third man was executed in Zaranj in Nimroz province and the fourth was in Farah city in the western province of the same name, the Supreme Court of Afghanistan ... at a stadium in Gardez ...