The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group had flogged a woman in front of the public on charges of "moral corruption" in Bak district of Khost province.

The court added that it sentenced the woman to 39 lashes and five months in prison.

On Tuesday, November 19, the Taliban's Supreme Court wrote in a statement that the woman's flogging sentence was carried out by the primary court of Bak district of Khost province in the presence of Taliban officials and local residents. The Taliban has not commented on the woman's charges.

In the past week, the Taliban has flogged at least 16 people in Ghazni, Nangarhar, Baghlan, and Paktika provinces on various charges.

Human rights organisations consider corporal punishment such as flogging and the death penalty to be a violation of basic human rights principles and contrary to human dignity.

Recently, the Taliban in Paktia province executed a person accused of murder at the Gardez Stadium in front of people.