Nineteen people including nine women were publicly lashed in Afghanistan this month for adultery, the Taliban admitted today.
The barbaric punishments are among the first major signs of the ruling group applying its strict interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) to criminal justice.
"After consideration and a strict sharia investigation, each of them were sentenced to 39 lashes," supreme court spokesperson Mawlawi Enayatullah said, adding that nine women were among those lashed.
