The United Nations demands that the Afghan Taliban stop public executions

The United Nations has called on the Taliban government to stop the brutal series of public executions in Afghanistan.

According to the World News Agency, Jeremy Lawrence, the spokesperson of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the public hanging of 2 people in a football stadium in Afghanistan last week is disturbing.

Jeremy Lawrence, the spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned the public executions in Afghanistan and urged the Taliban to stop using the death penalty.

In his statement, Jeremy Lawrence said public executions are a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment that violates the right to a secure life under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

A spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights added that Afghanistan should abide by the agreement as a party to this international agreement.

The United States, the only Western country that still practices the death penalty, has also condemned public executions in Afghanistan.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said public executions are another sign of brutality the Afghan government inflicts on its own people.

According to US media, public executions were common during the Taliban’s first rule from 1996 to 2001, but this time the Taliban were expected to show some leniency instead of their old ways.

It should be remembered that the death warrant signed by the supreme leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhundzada, was executed last week by the relatives of the victims who shot two criminals in public.