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【2024. 3. 29 Afghanistan】
‘Stone them to death’: Taliban announces resumption of public stoning and flogging of women
“We will whip these women… We will stone them to death in public.” The Taliban government, which controls Afghanistan, announced on March 24 that it would resume public flogging and stoning of women for adultery – although when it takes power in 2021, The Taliban has declared that it will not bring Afghanistan back to the terror rule of the 1990s, but in fact it has frozen the Afghan Constitution that was implemented in 2004 and gradually implemented severe punishments based on the basic teachings of Islam, which is particularly oppressive to women. The United Nations strongly criticized and asked the Taliban to stop their current practices, but the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada took a tough stance. He declared that the Taliban would continue to fight against Western influence. “I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.” Human rights organizations blame the international community’s inaction against the Taliban, which has led to the Taliban’s unscrupulous oppression of women in Afghanistan.
Taliban supreme leader Akhundzada delivered a radio speech on the Afghan Radio Station controlled by the Taliban on March 24. He announced that he would begin to implement strict Sharia law in Afghanistan, including the reintroduction of public flogging and stoning of adulterous women. Punishment, he said:
“We will whip these (adultery) women… We will stone them to death in public.”
Taliban leader Akhundzada.Photo/Associated Press
Akhundzada also said: “Do women want the rights that Westerners say? These rights are contrary to Sharia law and the views of the clerics, and our clerics have overturned Western democracy… We fight against Westerners who have 20 years, we will fight for another 20 years or more.”
The Taliban took over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in August 2021 and successfully seized power. Akhundzada said that the announcement of the re-implementation of flogging and stoning for women was also one of the battles against Western influence. The Taliban’s “work” has not With the takeover of Kabul now over, the Taliban now want to fully implement Sharia law on Afghan soil. Akhundzada claimed:
“When we publicly flog them or throw stones at them for adultery, you might say this is a violation of women’s rights because it goes against your democratic principles, but I represent Allah and you represent Satan. “
When the Taliban seized power in 2021, they declared that they would not return to the repressive rule of terror they had in power in the 1990s and tried to create a more moderate “new image.” However, they then gradually restricted and deprived Afghan women of their basic rights. , Afghan girls are now prohibited from receiving education beyond the sixth grade of primary school, and women are also prohibited from entering many public and private workplaces, including United Nations agencies and other relief organizations; at the same time, Afghan women are not allowed to travel long distances unless accompanied by a male relative. You cannot travel, fly, or go to public places such as parks, gyms, and bathhouses.
In 2022, a school controlled by the Taliban.Photo/Associated Press
Under the Taliban, the suicide rate among Afghan women has continued to rise. (Extended reading: “No choice: Two years after the Taliban took power, the suicide rate among Afghan women rises”)
The constitution of the Afghan democratically elected government originally supported by the United States in 2004 has been frozen by the Taliban, and the civil law, criminal law and other regulations have also been suspended.The United Nations pointed outAfghan judges and prosecutors are excluded from today’s judicial system. In Kabul and other provinces, at least 10 prosecutors (most of them men) were killed by unknown persons, and women were completely kicked out of the legal system. Judicial positions such as judges and lawyers are now held by Taliban members who have received basic religious education. The United Nations describes the current judicial situation in Afghanistan: “The country does not have an independent legal system, but an all-male regime that implements the Taliban version of Sharia law.”
Such a severe judicial situation that lacks independence and fairness, coupled with the resumption of torture such as public flogging and stoning, has made the situation of Afghan women even more dangerous, said Fetra, Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch (Sahar Fetrat) told the Guardian: “Two years ago, they (the Taliban) did not dare to publicly say that they would stone women to death, but now they dare. They have tested the results of implementing harsh policies step by step, and now They have reached this stage because they have not been held accountable for their abuse of power. The Taliban uses women’s bodies to dictate their moral and social order. If nothing is done to stop it, the number of victims will only increase.”
The Afghan human rights monitoring group “Afghan Witness” pointed out that Taliban-appointed judges ruled on 417 cases of public flogging and execution, of which 57 were women.
In February 2024, the Taliban carried out public executions in stadiums in Jawzjan and Ghazni provinces, and encouraged people to go to watch the executions, but photography and photography were prohibited.
Women pass Taliban soldiers on the street in Afghanistan.Photo/European News Agency Afghanistan in the past 24 hours
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