The Supreme Court of the Taliban has announced that the “retribution order” of two people accused of murder in Ghazni province has been executed after the approval of the leader of this group.

The Supreme Court of the Taliban published a statement today (Thursday, 23 February) and said that the “retribution sentence” of two people accused of murder in Ghazni Province was executed after the confirmation of the leader of this group in the Ghazni Province Stadium.

The announcement of the Taliban court stated that Seyyed Jamal was accused of murdering Amir Muhammad son of Sultan Muhammad, a resident of Lore village of Seyed Abad district, Wardak district, and Gul Khan was accused of murdering Mohammad Qasim son of Nazaruddin, a resident of Andar district of Ghazni province.

In this announcement, it is stated that the retribution sentence of these people was issued by the preliminary, intermediate and final courts of this group and confirmed by Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the leader of this group.

However, the Taliban group had previously executed two other cases of retribution in public in Farah and Laghman provinces.

After the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan, this group has repeatedly punished the accused in public.

Meanwhile, the Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in response to the public execution of two people in Ghazni province, asked the Taliban to immediately stop the death penalty.

UNAMA has said that the United Nations strongly opposes the death penalty and considers it to be in conflict with the fundamental right to life.

This international office has said that it calls for the suspension of the death penalty as a step towards the abolition of this punishment in Afghanistan.

This is despite the fact that the human rights institutions consider punishing people in public as an insult to their human dignity and demand to stop it.