Taliban carry out a double public execution at a stadium in Afghanistan
The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in Afghanistan as thousands watched the killing of two convicted men by their victims’ relatives.
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday as thousands watched the killing of two convicted men by their victims’ relatives.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court had ruled that the pair were responsible for the stabbing deaths of two victims in separate attacks, according to a court statement.
It identified the two as Syed Jamal from central Wardak province and Gul Khan from Ghazni — though it was unclear who did the stabbing, the two convicted men or others.
Men leaving a football stadium in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after a public execution on Thursday.AFP - Getty ImagesThe statement also said that three lower courts and the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered the executions in retribution for their purported crimes.
On Thursday, people crowded outside the stadium in the Ali Lala area of the city of Ghazni, clambering to get in, and religious scholars pleaded with relatives of the victims to forgive the convicts, but they refused.
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