In Afghanistan, the Taliban group has formed an interim government. A senior member will be in charge of prisons and has unveiled that the executions and amputations characteristic to the groups previous rule would return, British news portal The Guardian AP new agency report.
The Taliban’s first period ruling Afghanistan during the 1990s, before they were toppled by a US-led invasion in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks, was marked by the grisly excesses of its perfunctory justice system, which included public executions in the football stadium in Kabul. In the new Taliban government, Turabi is in charge of prisons.
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«Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,» Turabi said in Kabul. «No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Qur’an. (..) Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security»
In recent interview with Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi – who was justice minister and head of the so-called ministry of propagation of virtue and prevention of vice during the Taliban’s previous rule – dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past. Turabi, who is on UN sanctions list, warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Afghanistan prison chief envisages return of executions, cutting off arms as punishment
