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    Death sentence for four over mob killing of Afghan woman

    Four Afghan men were sentenced to death on Wednesday for the savage lynching of a woman falsely accused of blasphemy, a landmark judgement in a nation where female victims often have little legal recourse.

    The Kabul primary court also sentenced eight people to 16 years in prison while 18 others were found not guilty after a three-day trial broadcast live on national television.

    A furious mob turned on the woman, 27-year-old Farkhunda, on March 19, beating her in broad daylight and setting her body ablaze on the banks of the Kabul River.

    The attack came after an amulet seller, whom she had reportedly castigated for peddling superstition, falsely accused her of burning the Quran.

    Her killing triggered protests around Afghanistan and drew global attention to the treatment of Afghan women.

    Forty-nine people including 19 police officers accused of failing to prevent the attack were arrested.

    The trial, which drew praise for its fast-track nature but also prompted concern over its fairness, saw the suspects facing various charges including assault, murder and inciting others to participate.

    Judge Safiullah Mojaddidi, announcing the verdict, said Zainul Abiddin, Mohammad Yaqub, Mohammad Sharif and Abdul Bashir would be hanged.

    “It is not a final decision and their right to appeal is reserved,” the judge said.

    Farkhunda’s parents, who were in court on Wednesday, said before the verdict was announced that they “only want justice, nothing else”.

    Her brother Mujibullah said his family was not happy with the large number of acquittals in a murder caught on cellphone cameras and circulated on social media.

    There were dozens and dozens of people “involved in killing of my sister and the court only sentenced four to death”, he said.

    “We want the court ... to bring more perpetrators to justice.”

    Human Rights Watch said it was “very concerned” over whether due process was followed in the swift trial in which many of the accused did not appear to have lawyers.

    “To reach a verdict against 30 defendants on such serious charges in ... days, on its face raises serious due process concerns,” said Heather Barr, a senior researcher with the group on women’s rights in Asia.

    “This trial leaves the impression that the Afghan government wants a quick and dirty process to get this case out of the headlines and move on – rather than real justice and a real examination of how such a terrible attack could have happened.”

    The verdicts on the policemen accused of “negligence of duty” will be announced on Sunday and the court also ordered security forces to arrest three other key suspects.

    Farkhunda’s case has become a symbol of the endemic violence that women face in Afghanistan, despite reforms since the hardline Taliban regime fell in 2001.

    The backlash highlighted the angst of a post-Taliban generation in Afghanistan – where nearly two-thirds of the population is under 25 – that is often torn between conservatism and modernity as the country rebuilds after decades of war.

    Last October, five Afghan men were hanged over a gang rape that sparked a national outcry, even though the United Nations and human rights groups called for president Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions.

    A recent UN report entitled Justice through the eyes of Afghan women urged the government to strengthen access to justice for women victims of violence.

    Most cases of violence against women are settled through mediation, highlighting perceived deficiencies in the Afghan criminal justice system including allegations of corruption and abuse of power, the report said.

    http://www.thenational.ae/world/cent...f-afghan-woman

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    Afghan officials hang 6 Taliban insurgents in face of increasing violence

    KABUL — Afghan officials hanged six Taliban prisoners Sunday, a resumption of executions in the war that makes good on President Ashraf Ghani’s recent promise to deal harshly with insurgents now that hopes for peace negotiations have evaporated.

    The six prisoners were hanged in the morning inside the Pul-i-Charkhi prison — a detention facility on the outskirts of Kabul that is notorious among Afghans as the site of massive executions by the country’s then-communist regime during the 1980s.

    Among the inmates were two Taliban members who helped assassinate two senior government officials in recent years, officials said.

    One prisoner facilitated a 2011 suicide bomb attack on Burhanuddin Rabbani, who served as temporary president in Afghanistan after U.S. forces toppled the Taliban government 10 years earlier.

    The second Taliban member was involved in the 2009 suicide bomb assassination of Abdullah Laghmani, the deputy chief of the country’s National Directorate of Security.

    Ghani administration officials did not provide details about the other prisoners. But the Pul-i-Charkhi prison is where Anas Haqqani — son of Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani — has been held since 2014.

    Government officials said all of the executed prisoners had been found guilty of crimes against “civilian national security.”

    Ghani signed the order of execution in response to “repeated demands of the families of victims of terrorist attacks,” palace officials said in a statement.

    The hangings come amid increasing concerns over security in Afghanistan. Taliban forces, aided by the increasingly influential Haqqani network, have vowed widespread attacks across Afghanistan on the heels of a robust spring poppy harvest — a main source of income for the insurgent group through the heroin black market.

    Government officials — hopeful that the Taliban would enter into peace negotiations — had stopped executing captured prisoners during President Hamid Karzai’s administration.

    But, in the wake of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul last month that killed 64 people and wounded about 350, Ghani now says he is no longer interested in negotiating with Taliban leaders.

    Taliban leaders have recently warned that it will respond to executions by killing government prisoners in their captivity. On Sunday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group has yet to decide how to respond to the recent hangings.

    “Our leadership council will come up with reaction on this later,” he said, matter-of-factly.

    On a day after two Romanian soldiers were killed during an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan while training Afghan security forces, news of the hangings drew praise in Kabul.

    “Justice and security are tied together,” said Javed Kohistani, a retired Afghan general who now works as a political analyst.

    “The Taliban and other terrorists thought in the past that if they are arrested they can buy their way out by money or other means,” he said. “Now with the executions, they will feel fear in their hearts that they will face justice and cannot be spared.”

    NATO officials said they’re still investigating whether the Taliban is behind the deaths of the Romanian soldiers in Kandahar province.

    Army Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland, spokesman the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan, said the Romanians were assisting with hands-on training “when some of those they were training apparently fired on them.”

    Other NATO soldiers killed the two attackers, he said.

    “As for what comes next, the details are still to be determined but at a minimum, we will continue our efforts to partner with the Afghans to provide training, advise, and assist efforts,” Cleveland said.

    A Kandahar police official said the shooting occurred after an argument erupted between the Romanians and the Afghan trainees, before one police officer who has been with the department for several years drew his gun and began firing.

    “The cause of the incident is fully not clear,” said Zia Durrani, the police official.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...3ac_story.html
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    Afghan court award death sentence to senior Taliban leader

    ISLAMABAD: A local Afghanistan court has sentenced guerrilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani’s brother Anas Haqqani to death, according to reports.

    A section of media quoted Baseer Aziz, spokesperson for the office of attorney general, saying that a primary court awarded death sentence to Anas, who was captured by United States security officials after he visited Qatar in October, 2014, along with another leader Hafiz Rashid. Baseer refused to comment on when and where the verdict was handed down.

    The Taliban had earlier confirmed Anas and Rashid’s detention, adding that the two had travelled to Qatar to meet Taliban leaders released from Guantanamo. The US later handed over Anas and another senior Taliban commander to Afghan authorities. The Afghan government claimed Anas had been arrested in eastern Afghanistan.

    Working under the defence ministry, an Afghan army website ArmyAFG, also confirmed the reports. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid is yet to comment.

    According to Afghan legal experts, local court convicts have the right to appeal in high court, as well as the supreme court. Afghan officials earlier claimed that Anas was taking care of fundraising for the Haqqani network; however, the Taliban, while denying the claim said Anas was a student, who held no position in the organisation.

    The Taliban had also accused US of violating an understanding reached during the exchange of prisoners, which allowed relatives to visit freed Guantanamo inmates. The verdict came a few months after the Afghan government hanged six Taliban prisoners in Kabul. The Taliban later launched a series of target attacks on judges, killing some judges and court officials.

    http://dailytimes.com.pk/world/29-Au...taliban-leader
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Afghanistan executes five members of criminal gang

    By AFP

    Afghanistan on Wednesday executed five members of a gang involved in kidnapping and murder, as the government of the war-torn nation struggles to curb criminals who target foreigners and wealthy locals.

    The hangings were carried out at Kabul's Pul-e-Charkhi prison after the convicts lost three appeals and President Ashraf Ghani confirmed the sentences, the interior ministry said in a statement.

    It said the group was involved in the kidnapping and murder of the deputy head of a construction company, and was also involving in counterfeiting and carrying illegal weapons.

    With the fledgling and under-resourced police force fully occupied in fighting the Taliban, Islamic State jihadists and other insurgents, kidnapping and extortion has become a cottage industry.

    The criminal gangs often sell abductees, especially foreigners, to insurgent groups for a higher price. The victims are then transferred to lawless areas across the border in Pakistan, according to officials.

    In May 2016 Ghani approved the execution of six Taliban-linked inmates -- the first hangings carried out as part of a new hardline policy against insurgents and criminals.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp...inal-gang.html

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    Taliban executes former IS-K chief a year after Afghan govt jailed him: Report

    The Week

    With the Taliban having won the battle for supremacy in Afghanistan, the group appears to have begun a crackdown on its rivals. According to media reports and social media footage, Omar Khorasani, former head of the Islamic State in South Asia.

    According to a Wall Street Journal report, Khorasani, also known as Mawlawi Ziya ul-Haq, was taken from an Afghan government prison and executed. Khorasani had been arrested by Afghan security forces in an operation in May 2020. Khorasani headed the group’s South Asia operations, but had been replaced as chief at the time of his arrest.

    According to the UN report, “In April, ISIL-K leader Mawlawi Zia ul-Haq, also known as Abu Omar Khorasani, was dismissed and replaced by Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi, who was previously in charge of operations in the Khyber Agency. Ul-Haq’s demotion was reportedly due to poor performance in the context of ISIL-K setbacks in Nangarhar in the second half of 2018. The new leadership nomination was made during a visit by an ISIL core delegation, underscoring the direct relationship between ISIL-K and the ISIL core in Iraq and Syria,” the report said.

    According to reports, Khorasani was killed in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul.

    Khorasan’s successor, Shahab al-Muhajir, was appointed in June 2020, according to a report by the United Nationals monitoring team for the ISIL (Da’esh) & Al Qaeda sanctions Committee.

    In July 21, the UN team in its 28th report warned that ISIL-K was seeking to recruit Taliban fighters. The Taliban and ISIS have clashed numerous times in Afghanistan since 2015.

    Other terror outfits have been supportive of the Taliban. The banned Pakistani Taliban or the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group has congratulated the Afghan Taliban on taking control of Afghanistan, describing it as a "victory for the whole Islamic world", according to a media report on Tuesday.

    In the statement, TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khorasani reiterated the group's "allegiance to the Afghan Taliban leadership," and pledged to "support and strengthen the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan."

    https://www.theweek.in/news/world/20...ailed-him.html
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    The Taliban is following a similar tactic that most Asian nations do by killing criminals in "firefights".

    They will probably resume official executions by the end of the year.

    7 including 5 kidnappers killed in N. Afghanistan

    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security personnel attacked a band of kidnappers in the northern Balkh province to try to rescue the two people they held, killing seven people including the five kidnappers, provincial official Mawlavi Zabiullah Nurani said Monday.

    According to the official, the kidnappers captured two people possibly for ransom in Dasht-e-Shur area outside Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital.

    "Five kidnappers abducted two men and the security personnel attacked the abductors in Dasht-e-Shur area, killing the abductors but unfortunately the two abductees were also killed in the firefight," Nurani said.

    One of the security personnel sustained minor injury in the rescue mission, the official added.

    http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asi...1310185071.htm
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    Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return

    By KATHY GANNON
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    One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

    In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.

    “Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”

    Since the Taliban overran Kabul on Aug. 15 and seized control of the country, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether they will re-create their harsh rule of the late 1990s. Turabi’s comments pointed to how the group’s leaders remain entrenched in a deeply conservative, hard-line worldview, even if they are embracing technological changes, like video and mobile phones.

    Turabi, now in his early 60s, was justice minister and head of the so-called Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — effectively, the religious police — during the Taliban’s previous rule.

    At that time, the world denounced the Taliban’s punishments, which took place in Kabul’s sports stadium or on the grounds of the sprawling Eid Gah mosque, often attended by hundreds of Afghan men.

    Executions of convicted murderers were usually by a single shot to the head, carried out by the victim’s family, who had the option of accepting “blood money” and allowing the culprit to live. For convicted thieves, the punishment was amputation of a hand. For those convicted of highway robbery, a hand and a foot were amputated.

    Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favor of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions.

    Turabi said that this time, judges — including women — would adjudicate cases, but the foundation of Afghanistan’s laws will be the Quran. He said the same punishments would be revived.

    “Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” he said, saying it had a deterrent effect. He said the Cabinet was studying whether to do punishments in public and will “develop a policy.”

    In recent days in Kabul, Taliban fighters have revived a punishment they commonly used in the past — public shaming of men accused of small-time theft.

    On at least two occasions in the last week, Kabul men have been packed into the back of a pickup truck, their hands tied, and were paraded around to humiliate them. In one case, their faces were painted to identify them as thieves. In the other, stale bread was hung from their necks or stuffed in their mouth. It wasn’t immediately clear what their crimes were.

    Wearing a white turban and a bushy, unkempt white beard, the stocky Turabi limped slightly on his artificial leg. He lost a leg and one eye during fighting with Soviet troops in the 1980s.

    Under the new Taliban government, he is in charge of prisons. He is among a number of Taliban leaders, including members of the all-male interim Cabinet, who are on a United Nations sanctions list.

    During the previous Taliban rule, he was one of the group’s most ferocious and uncompromising enforcers. When the Taliban took power in 1996, one of his first acts was to scream at a woman journalist, demanding she leave a room of men, and to then deal a powerful slap in the face of a man who objected.

    Turabi was notorious for ripping music tapes from cars, stringing up hundreds of meters of destroyed cassettes in trees and signposts. He demanded men wear turbans in all government offices and his minions routinely beat men whose beards had been trimmed. Sports were banned, and Turabi’s legion of enforcers forced men to the mosque for prayers five times daily.

    In this week’s interview with the AP, Turabi spoke to a woman journalist.

    “We are changed from the past,” he said.

    He said now the Taliban would allow television, mobile phones, photos and video “because this is the necessity of the people, and we are serious about it.” He suggested that the Taliban saw the media as a way to spread their message. “Now we know instead of reaching just hundreds, we can reach millions,” he said. He added that if punishments are made public, then people may be allowed to video or take photos to spread the deterrent effect.

    The U.S. and its allies have been trying to use the threat of isolation — and the economic damage that would result from it — to pressure the Taliban to moderate their rule and give other factions, minorities and women a place in power.

    But Turabi dismissed criticism over the previous Taliban rule, arguing that it had succeeded in bringing stability. “We had complete safety in every part of the country,” he said of the late 1990s.

    Even as Kabul residents express fear over their new Taliban rulers, some acknowledge grudgingly that the capital has already become safer in just the past month. Before the Taliban takeover, bands of thieves roamed the streets, and relentless crime had driven most people off the streets after dark.

    “It’s not a good thing to see these people being shamed in public, but it stops the criminals because when people see it, they think ‘I don’t want that to be me,’” said Amaan, a storeowner in the center of Kabul. He asked to be identified by just one name.

    Another shopkeeper said it was a violation of human rights but that he was also happy he can open his store after dark.

    https://apnews.com/article/religion-...5b5b5435a9de54
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    Taliban hang body from crane in city square

    by Jordan Williams
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    Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a local pharmacy, told the AP that four bodies were brought to the square and three bodies were taken to other areas of the city for public display.

    According to Seddiqi, the Taliban said the men were taking part in a kidnapping and were killed by police.

    A Taliban-appointed police chief in the city later claimed that kidnappers had abducted a father and son, adding the pair were rescued after a gunfight that killed all four alleged kidnappers, the AP reported.

    The Taliban rapidly seized control of Afghanistan in mid-August and have since set out to earn international legitimacy, despite concerns that the militant group would return to its former brutality.

    Under previous Taliban rule, the Taliban shot murderers dead and cut off hands and feet from alleged thieves and highway robbers.

    Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the Taliban's founders, told the AP earlier this week that the group has said executions and amputations will return as punishments for crimes.

    "No one will tell us what our laws should be," Turabi told the AP. "We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran."

    Asked about Turabi's comments on Friday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the U.S. condemned them "in the strongest terms."

    "The acts the Taliban are talking about here would constitute clear gross abuses of human rights, and we stand firm with the international community to hold perpetrators of these - of any such abuses accountable," Price told reporters.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp
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    The Taliban executed 8 members of the NRF by firing squad earlier today in Panjshir. No stories on it, but there's multiple videos of it going around on twitter.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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