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forced a 13 year old boy to shoot dead a man who had killed dozens of his family members.The execution was carried out in public in front of thousands of people.
About 80,000 people gathered at a sports stadium in Khost province, southeastern Afghanistan, to witness the horrific event.
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The man who was executed was named Mangal and two others.The three were found guilty of murdering 13 members of the teenager’s family, including several children and women.
The perpetrator was sentenced to qisas, a punishment of retribution in sharia law that is in line with the Biblical principle of “an eye for an eye.”
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court said the victim’s family was given the opportunity to forgive and reconcile, a step that could save the convict’s life.However, authorities said they insisted that the death sentence be carried out.
“Today a murderer was sentenced to reprisal (qisas) at a sports stadium in Khost province,” the Supreme Court of Afghanistan said in a statement on the X platform.
“The victim’s family was offered the option of forgiveness or retribution. However, after they refused and continued to demand qisas, an order to implement the divine decision was issued. At the closing of the event, a joint prayer was held to strengthen national security, increase people’s access to their legal rights, as well as the proper implementation of Islamic sharia throughout the country.”
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, the Taliban reportedly prohibited visitors from bringing cellphones with cameras into the stadium where the execution was held.
However, a video recorded from outside the stadium showed a large crowd of tens of thousands of men gathered to witness the execution.
The death sentence has also been handed down to two other perpetrators involved in the murder, but the execution could not be carried out because several of the victims’ heirs were not present.
The convict was shot dead after three levels of courts, namely the lower court, appeals court and Supreme Court, upheld the death sentence decision, and Afghanistan’s highest leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, gave final approval.
The execution was the 11th since the Taliban reverted to a strict interpretation of sharia law, which allows the death penalty, amputation or flogging for crimes such as murder, adultery and theft.
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Since taking power in 2021, the Taliban have also barred Afghan women and girls from accessing secondary and tertiary education as well as most types of work.
The UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, condemned public executions, especially those carried out by minors.
“Public executions are inhumane, cruel and a form of punishment that violates international law,” he wrote.
During the previous period of Taliban rule in the late 1990s, public executions, flogging and stoning were often carried out.
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