US EditionAfghanistan’s Taliban Rulers Carry Out Public Execution in Sports Stadium in Eastern City
The execution was the 12th public killing since 2021, ordered after courts and Taliban leader upheld the death sentence for a mass murder case, witnessed by thousands.
- On Tuesday, Afghanistan's Taliban authorities executed Mangal at a sports stadium in Khost, eastern city, the Supreme Court said.
- His conviction followed legal reviews showing the killing of members of an extended family earlier this year; courts upheld the sentence and victims' families requested the death penalty.
- Tens of thousands attended after authorities urged people to attend in notices shared on Monday and Dec 1, with witnesses and Khost police spokesman Mustaghfir Gorbaz saying a relative of the victims shot the condemned man three times in front of thousands of onlookers.
- UN monitors condemned the execution, with Richard Bennett calling it `inhumane, cruel, and an unusual punishment, contrary to international law`, while Amnesty International noted unfair trials and AFP's tally reached 12 public executions since 2021.
- Historically, the Taliban staged public punishments in sports stadiums since public executions were common under the 1996–2001 Taliban rule, and they have reinstated strict Sharia measures including bans on women and girls and corporal punishments like flogging.
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13-year-old executes man who killed his family in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, 80k watch
A 13-year-old boy executed a man convicted of murdering 13 members of his family in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost. Around 80,000 people watched the execution, which was ordered by the Afghan Supreme Court and sanctioned by the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The public execution has been condemned by the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers carry out public execution in sports stadium in eastern city
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have carried out a public execution in the eastern city of Khost. The Supreme Court says the man executed had killed 13 members of a family, including children, earlier this year.
A court in Afghanistan accuses a man of killing a human being, for which he himself is to die, and the authorities are calling on him to watch, not for the first time.
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Afghan Taliban authorities publicly execute man for murder
A man convicted of murder was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, a punishment a UN rights monitor called "inhumane".
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