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Terror in Afghanistan, the Taliban hang a man in the square in Herat

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The Taliban executed a man accused of kidnapping by hanging him from a crane in the main square of the city of Herat, in western Afghanistan. This was reported by a witness quoted by the Associated Press. A video was posted on Twitter by journalists and activists.

According to what Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on one side of the main square in Herat, told Ap, four bodies were dragged by the Taliban, but three of these were moved to other squares in the city to be hung. In the square, the Taliban then announced that the four were captured while participating in a kidnapping and were killed by the police.

The hangings came in the aftermath of the interview given by Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, current minister of the prison system and already twenty years ago minister of justice and head of the ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice (the religious police), to the PA in which he also warned the West not to meddle in the country’s internal affairs.

“The cutting of the hands is necessary for safety,” said Turabi, recalling that when it was practiced it had a deterrent effect. Twenty years ago, executions of murder inmates were typically carried out with a gunshot to the head fired by a member of the victim’s family, who had the option of accepting so-called “bloody money” in exchange for the life of the victim. condemned. For the thieves the punishment was the amputation of a hand, while for the crime of highway robbery a hand and a foot were amputated.

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Silence, for now, on the part of the mullah, on the stoning of adulterous women. But the position of the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, the invisible emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, theoretical – among other things – of the harshest form of Sharia, leaves little doubt in this regard. “We will follow Islam and make our laws based on the Koran,” reiterated Turabi. And he warned. “Nobody will tell us what our laws should be. Everyone criticized us for the penalties at the stadium, but we never said anything about their laws and their penalties ».

There is no question about the Koranic law as the basis of law, and in this case its extreme interpretation. With all due respect to the propaganda which, immediately after the seizure of power on August 15, wanted to give the international community a more moderate and open image of the ‘new’ Taliban.

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