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Civil Rights Women in Taliban Afghanistan: beatings, whipping and a Ministry to punish their sins
Almost everything in the 'new' Taliban 2.0 smells musty. Or blood. It has just been confirmed to the Associated Press by Mullah
Nooruddin Turabi,
the newly appointed chief responsible for applying in Afghanistan one of the most ultramontane interpretations of Sharia or Islamic law. As he explained, in this new era with the fundamentalists at the helm they will recover severe penalties such as the
amputation of limbs.
If anything, they clarify, they will debate whether or not to do it in public, something harmful to their image.
"Cutting hands is very necessary for safety," he said during the interview. He emphasizes that such a practice has a
dissuasive effect,
and that the acting Cabinet is studying how to "develop a policy" around the dissemination or not of these punishments, branded by its critics as
"medieval."
Many Western countries have warned the new lords of Kabul that their support will depend on their human rights policy, especially with women.
During his previous government, the Taliban made a bad name for themselves at the cost of convictions turned into outrages. Particularly infamous was the use as a gallows of the Kabul football stadium, where the sport had been banned under the orders of Turabi, a veteran who came out of the war against the Soviets one-eyed and with a stump in his leg. According to the Talión law that was applied, only the payment of
'blood money'
saved from being shot in the neck. The other savagery was the
stoning.
In 1996, Turabi was head of the judiciary and minister for the prevention of vice and the promotion of virtue. He was one of the most enthusiastic enforcers of regulations such as the
destruction of radios
and cassette tapes, the punishment with beatings of those who shaved their beards too much and the obligation to wear a turban in official headquarters. And, of course, the exclusion of women from all political activity, as well as from public life. Decreeing stoning or whipping was a part of his job.
Now he claims that the Taliban have changed. A few days before they took Kabul, after a lightning offensive, a judge of the movement, based in the province of Balkh, assured the BBC network that he supported one hundred percent the rigorous interpretations of his own. "In our sharia it is clear,
those who have sex without being married, be they a girl or a boy, the punishment is a hundred lashes in public
... But for anyone who is married, they must be stoned to death." Theft leads to amputation.
Sharia dominates the legal system of countries with Islamic governments such as Saudi Arabia, Iran or Egypt. But each country applies it based on the interpretations of its own schoolchildren and, consequently, in a different way. Even the previous Afghan government, constituted as an Islamic Republic,
had the sharia and the death penalty among its possible sentences,
although it applied it mostly in cases of terrorism or serious robbery and only in the area of prisons.
With the Taliban, it is feared that the death penalty will be applied again against other actions considered crimes, such as
apostasy or adultery,
and that it will be carried out in public. "Everyone criticized us for our punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments," Turabi complains to the AP. "No one has to come and tell us how our laws should be. We will follow Islam and base our laws on the Koran," Turabi says.
The NGO's concern is based on death sentences such as the one recently received by the brother of a translator, according to a letter obtained by CNN, in which he was accused of having helped the United States and having provided security to the family member. .
It was the third letter, after two in which he was urged to appear before the judge of an Afghan region.
Finally, the latter served to determine that he was "guilty in absentia" for
"your servitude to the invading crusaders."
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