The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's primary court in Bagram district of Parwan province had flogged a woman and a man on charges of having extramarital affairs.

The court said that the defendants were sentenced to three years in prison and sentenced to 39 lashes.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced in a statement on Wednesday, November 6, that the two defendants were sentenced to flogging in the presence of local officials, court clients, and the general public.

On Tuesday, November 5, the Taliban's Supreme Court announced the flogging of at least 27 people in Kabul, Maidan Wardak, Paktika, and Jawzjan provinces.

According to reports from the Taliban's Supreme Court, the group has publicly flogged more than 40 people in various provinces of Afghanistan in the past week.

This comes as international human rights organisations have repeatedly called on the Taliban to stop corporal punishment and torture of defendants. The Taliban, however, has continued to publicly punish the accused.

The Taliban consider the implementation of the public flogging sentence to be one of the orders of "Islamic Sharia".