US slams Taliban plan to re-implement executions and chop off hands as punishment

WASHINGTON – United States of America (US) denounces the plan Taliban to reinstate executions to the amputation of the hands as punishment for crimes committed in Afghanistan. Washington’s condemnation was delivered by State Department spokesman Ned Price on Friday.

“The sentence would constitute a clear violation of human rights,” Price said.

“We stand firm with the international community to hold the perpetrators, of each of these violations, accountable,” Price continued Al Arabiya, Saturday (25/9/2021).

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The US condemnation came a day after the Taliban official, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, said in an interview with The Associated Press that executions and amputations are necessary punishments to maintain security in Afghanistan.

Since taking control of Afghanistan on August 15, the Taliban have launched a campaign of enchantment to rehabilitate their hardline image from the 1996-2001 era. While in power, the Taliban carried out public executions, whipped men who did not pray in mosques, and restricted daily movements and adopted their own extreme interpretation of Islamic law or Sharia.

However, the Taliban have not changed much of their core values ​​as Turabi emphasized in his interview with The Associated Press that the group would carry out any punishment it deems appropriate and demanded the international community not to interfere.

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