Taliban Carries Out Public Executions in a Football Stadium
Image Source: Euronews.com
The Taliban on Thursday carried out two public executions at a football stadium in the southeastern city of Ghazni, Afghanistan as thousands watched the killing of the two convicted men as their victims’ relatives fired the gunshot.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court had ruled that the two were responsible for the stabbing deaths of two victims in separate attacks, according to a court statement. It identified the two people 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 anyone else.
The statement also said that three lower courts and the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered the executions of the two people in retribution for their crimes.
On Thursday, thousands of people crowded outside the football stadium, trying to get in, while religious scholars pleaded with relatives of the victims to forgive the convicts, but they refused. Abu Abu Khalid Sarhadi, a spokesperson for Ghazni police, said that the relatives of the victims executed the two men. There were a total of 15 bullets fired, eight at one of the men and seven at the other.
These killings were the third and fourth public executions since the Taliban seized power in 2021, and the UN has criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions.
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