A hardline member of the Taliban has said in an interview that executions and amputations of hands will resume, in accordance with Islamic law, though perhaps not as a public spectacle. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers. “No one will tell us what our laws should be”, Turabi said. “We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran”.
During the Taliban’s last period in charge, from 1996 to 2001, executions of convicted murderers were usually by a single shot to the head, carried out by the victim’s family, who had the option of accepting ‘blood money’ instead, and allowing the culprit to live. For convicted thieves, the punishment was amputation of a hand. For those convicted of highway robbery, a hand and a foot were amputated. Most of these punishments took place in Kabul’s sports stadium, or on the grounds of the Eid Gah mosque, often witnessed by hundreds of Afghan men.
Licenced today (though only a particularly poor church mouse would be happy with the fee): the interior of the church in the grounds of Belton Hall, near Grantham, Lincolnshire...
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