Taliban Public Punishment - Nangarhar (2015)
Incident- Date
- Mar 6, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Khogyani
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.5547577974849
Longitude: 68.2978137574004
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Khogyani
- Town/Village
- Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province
- Types of incident
- Arrest
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Public Humiliation
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Taliban Security (Police) Command
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- War crime: Denying a fair trial
- War crime: Inhuman treatment
- War crime: Outrages upon personal dignity
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: March 6, 2015 Location: Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province
Victims: Four men
Perpetrators: Taliban
Incident Type: Illegal detention and public punishment
Claimed Responsibility: Taliban
Narrative: On March 6, 2015, Taliban forces detained four men in Khogyani District of Nangarhar Province under allegations of robbery. A Taliban 'court' sentenced each man to 28 lashes. The Taliban carried out the punishments in public after Friday prayers. The group claimed responsibility for the punishments through a statement on their website.
- Source_1
1- AHRDO Incident Report
2- UNAMA Annual Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. pg. 51
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