The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had flogged five people, including a woman, on charges of extramarital affairs and same-sex relations.

The court wrote that the defendants were sentenced to 20-39 lashes. They have also been sentenced to one to two years in prison.

On Saturday, December 7, the Taliban's Supreme Court wrote that the defendants were flogged in the presence of representatives of government institutions, court clients, and the general public.

According to the Taliban's Supreme Court newsletters, the group has punished nearly 20 people with public flogging in the past week alone.

Despite the objections of international organisations to corporal punishment and torture of defendants, the Taliban has continued to punish them with flogging. The group considers the flogging of defendants in public to be an order of "Islamic law”.