UN strongly criticizes the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices
Last month, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers informed the United Nations that Afghan women employed with the UN mission could no longer report for work. / Photo: AP Archive
“Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease," the agency's human rights chief Fiona Frazer said on Monday. She also called for an immediate moratorium on executions. “In the event of a conflict between international human rights law and Islamic law, the government is obliged to follow the Islamic law,” the ministry said in a statement.
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