Taliban carries out double public execution at stadium in Ghazni city, Afghanistan
The Hindu
Taliban carries out double public execution in Ghazni, Afghanistan, marking the third and fourth known public executions since 2021.
The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on February 22.
A crowd of thousands, including an AP journalist, witnessed the executions, which occurred in the Ali Lala area of Ghazni city.
The Taliban did not respond to requests for information about the people who were executed or their alleged crimes.
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Local media reported that several courts and the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered their deaths in retribution for crimes they purportedly committed.
People crowded outside the venue, clambering to get in, and religious scholars pleaded with relatives of the victims to forgive the convicts, but they refused.