The Taliban administration on Wednesday put to death a man accused of murder in western Afghanistan, its spokesperson said, the first officially confirmed public execution since the hardline Islamist group seized power last year.
The execution in Farah province was of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in 2017, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said, and was attended by senior Taliban officials.
More than a dozen senior Taliban officials attended the execution, Mujahid said, including acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and acting deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar, as well as Afghanistan's chief justice, acting foreign minister and acting education minister. A Taliban spokesperson said in response to the United Nation's comments that retributive justice was the right of victims' family members.
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