The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 10 individuals, including one woman, were publicly whipped in Khost province on January 22, 2025, charged with “adultery,” “sodomy,” “illicit relations,” and “running away from home.”
A higher court on January 21, 2025 upheld the death sentence for Wang Haowen, who was convicted of trafficking children.
A fast-track court in Korba district of Chhattisgarh has sentenced five men to death for gang-raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and murdering her two family members in 2021.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran