‘No-one will inform us what our legal guidelines must be’: Former Taliban ‘head of spiritual police’ says, executions and amputations set to renew in Afghanistan

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, a former Talibani head of spiritual police claimed that excessive punishments like executions and amputations will restart once more in Afghanistan in response to a BBC report. Turabi, who’s at the moment in control of the prisons in Afghanistan stated “No one will tell us what our laws should be.”
Human Rights Watch despatched out a warning on Thursday that the Taliban in Herat had been concerned in “searching out high-profile women, denying women freedom of movement outside their homes [and] imposing compulsory dress codes”.
Secretary-General Agnès Callamard of the Amnesty International stated concerning the brutality of the Taliban killings that it was “a reminder of the Taliban’s past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring”.
Just earlier than Taliban took over Kabul, one Taliban choose from Balkh named Haji Badruddin informed Secunder Kermani of the BBC “In our Sharia, it’s clear, for those who have sex and are unmarried, whether it’s a girl or a boy, the punishment is 100 lashes in public,” Haji Badruddin defined the punishments in response to Sharia, “… For those who steal: if it’s proved, then his hand should be cut off.”
Turabi additionally talked about that the Taliban’s cabinet ministers had been contemplating whether or not the punishments would happen in public or in non-public and {that a} coverage could be developed.
Taliban carried out the executions in Kabul’s sports activities stadium and Eid Gah mosque within the Nineteen Nineties. Turabi was then the pinnacle of the Taliban’s spiritual police referred to as Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Mullah Turabi remembered the executions in a current interview the place he stated that “Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and punishments,” 
On the Taliban’s request of talking on the UN General Assembly, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated, “the UN General Assembly is not the appropriate venue for that” whereas sustaining that communication with the Taliban is necessary.