Taliban flog 12 Afghans, including women, for adultery, eloping
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Punishments were carried out in southeastern Khost and northern Parwan provinces, with members of judiciary, administrative staff, and ordinary citizens present as onlookers

Taliban justice officials in Afghanistan said Thursday that 12 people, including two women, had been publicly flogged this week after being tried and charged with adultery, sodomy, eloping, and having “illicit relations.”