"The Taliban, the uncontested government of Afghanistan since 2021, used a stadium to stage a mass punishment event for 63 people on Tuesday, administering public floggings for crimes ranging from “fleeing from home” to “adultery.
”Afghan outlets reported on the event, the latest in a series of increasingly common stadium punishment displays, and quoted locals who said they approved of public punishments under the Islamist rule of the Taliban terrorist organization.
The United Nations issued a condemnation of the floggings, describing its leadership as “deeply disturbed by the widespread, continued use of corporal punishment in Afghanistan”:"
