Rare look inside Taliban’s eye-for-an-eye sharia justice system | South China Morning Post

A 75-year-old Afghan man has appealed against his death sentence for murdering his relative. Under sharia law, which replaced the Afghan judicial system when the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, the public execution would be carried out by a relative of the victim.

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