Afghanistan's Taliban-led government announced punishments handed out to 417 people under Shari’a law during a recent 12-month period, according to a report issued this week by Afghan Witness, an ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law ...

A convicted murderer was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, an act condemned as “inhumane” by UN human rights officials. The Supreme Court identified ...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the Taliban’s latest public execution of a convicted murderer, which took place at a sports stadium in eastern Afghanistan’s ...

UN experts on Thursday urged Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to immediately impose a moratorium on inhumane punishments, including capital and corporal punishments, in response to public executions ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new penal code sets 15-day prison sentences for wife-beating but five months for animal mistreatment, enshrining ...