The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had publicly flogged two women and a man in Faryab province on charges of having sex and running away from home.

The court said that it had sentenced one person to 39 lashes while the other two people were sentenced to 29 and 39 lashes each.

The Taliban's Supreme Court wrote in a statement on Tuesday, that the primary courts of Shirin Tagab and Pashtunkot districts of Faryab province had punished the individuals in the presence of the group's officials and the public.

The court reports the flogging of defendants in different provinces of Afghanistan everyday.
However, human rights organisations have called on the Taliban to stop the cruel and corporal punishment of defendants in public.