Kabul:
Amid growing concerns over the human rights situation in Afghanistan, Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada has ordered judges to fully implement Islamic law.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Haibatullah Akhundzada’s order came after the leader met with a group of judges.
“Alaiqadar Amirul Momineen in an Assembly of Judges: Investigate the cases of thieves, kidnappers and agitators. Those cases that have met all the sharia conditions of restriction and retaliation, you are obliged to issue the restriction and retaliation, because it is order is from sharia and my order and it is obligatory to act,” Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday.
A Taliban spokesman said the order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate will be carried out across the country. “Those involved in murder, kidnapping and robbery should be punished for their actions,” Taliban spokesman Yousef Ahmadi told TOLOnews.
The Afghan news agency said this is the first time the Taliban leader has issued a formal order to fully implement all aspects of Islamic law across the country since the Islamist group took power.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021 and imposed policies that severely curtailed basic rights, particularly those of women and girls.
The Taliban have dismissed all women from senior positions in the civil service and banned girls from attending secondary school in most provinces. Taliban decrees prohibit women from traveling unless accompanied by a male relative and require women’s faces to be covered in public, including female TV newscasters.
The Taliban have censored broad, limited critical coverage and detained and beat journalists.
Rights groups say Taliban forces have carried out revenge killings and enforced disappearances of former government officials and security force personnel. They have summarily executed people deemed to be associated with the Islamic State.
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