Nine men have been publicly lashed in southern Afghanistan as punishment for different crimes under the country's new rulers, a Taliban-appointed official said.
Haji Zaid, a spokesman for the governor's office in southern Kandahar province, said that the lashings took place at the sports stadium in the city of Kandahar, the provincial capital.
Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local people, he said.
