UN urges Taliban to end floggings, execution
ISLAMABAD, MAY 8: A UN report on Monday strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country's rulers to halt such practices. In the past 6 months alone, 274 men, 58 women and 2 boys were publicly flogged in Afghanistan, according to a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA. "Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease", said Fiona Frazer, the agency's human rights chief. She also...