Taliban hang bodies as a warning

The grisly protest came a day after a well-known Taliban official warned that extreme punishments, such as executions and amputations, would be reintroduced as a means of ensuring the safety of the population.

The men were killed in a shootout after allegedly kidnapping a businessman and his son, a local official said.

Local residents said a body was hung from a crane in the city center.

Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, a local businessman, told the Associated Press news agency that four body They were taken to the square, one was hanged there and the other three bodies were transferred to other squares in the city for display.

Herat deputy governor Maulwai Shair said the presentation of the bodies was made to deter further kidnappings. He said the men were killed in a shootout after the taliban they discovered that a businessman and his son had been kidnapped and released.

However, graphic images shared on social media appear to show bloody bodies in the back of a pickup truck with a tow truck lifting a man.

Another video showed a man hanging from a crane with a sign on his chest that read: “Kidnappers will be punished like this.

Since taking power in Afghanistan on August 15, the Taliban have promised a way to government more fluid than during his previous mandate.

However, many human rights violations have already been reported across the country.

The well-known former head of the Taliban religious police, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi – who is now in charge of the prisons – said on Thursday that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume in Afghanistan because they were “necessary for the security “.

In an interview with the PA, he said that these punishments cannot be carried out in public, as was done under the previous Taliban government in the 1990s. Public executions often took place in the Kabul stadium. or on the vast grounds of Eid. Gah Mosque during the group’s five-year rule.

However, he dismissed the outrage over his past public executions: “No one will tell us what our laws should be.

Turabi – who is on a UN sanctions list for his past actions – added that “everyone criticized us for the punishments at the stadium, but we never said anything about their laws and punishments.”

In August, Amnesty International claimed that Taliban fighters were behind the massacres of nine members of the persecuted Hazara minority.

Amnesty General Secretary Agnes Callamard said at the time that the “cold-blooded brutality” of the killings was “a reminder of the Taliban’s record and a frightening indicator of what the Taliban government can do.”