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from afghanistan Taliban Authorities carried out a public hanging at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, executing a man from the country who was sentenced to death. Supreme Court Earlier this year, 13 members of a family, including several children, were killed.
Thousands of people, including relatives of the victims, attended the execution at the sports stadium, which the Supreme Court said was the 11th execution since the Taliban seized power in 2021 in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US and NATO forces.
Richard Bennett, the UN special envoy for Afghanistan, posted on Twitter early Tuesday that reports suggested a public execution was imminent and called for it to be stopped.
“Public execution is inhumane, cruel and unusual punishment and contrary to international law,” he posted.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law, including a return to public executions as well as a ban on Afghan women and girls from secondary school and university education and most forms of employment.
The execution was ordered after the death sentence was passed by a court, an appeals court and the apex court and approved by Afghanistan’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to a statement from the Supreme Court.
Khost police spokesman Mustaghfir Gorbaz said the man was shot by a relative of the men he was blamed for killing. The man was convicted of entering a family home in Khost province along with others and shooting dead an extended family, including nine children and their mother, Gorbaz said.
The court said that the victim’s relatives were given the option of apology and reconciliation, which would have saved the man’s life, but instead they requested the death penalty.
During their previous rule over Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings, and stonings.