Five years after the Taliban's renewed takeover of power, Afghan human rights activists have documented thousands of cases of public flogging in Afghanistan. Between February 22, 2022, and April 21, 2026, at least 2,745 people were flogging in 634 documented incidents, according to an analysis by the exiled Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO), as reported by newspapers of the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (Editorial Ne…
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Five years after the Taliban's renewed takeover of power, Afghan human rights activists have documented thousands of cases of public flogging in Afghanistan. Between February 22, 2022, and April 21, 2026, at least 2,745 people were flogging in 634 documented incidents, according to an analysis by the exiled Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO), as reported by newspapers of the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (Editorial Ne…