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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers carry out public execution in sports stadium

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The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out the public execution of a man on Tuesday convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including several children, earlier this year.

Tens of thousands of people attended the execution at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Khost, which the Supreme Court said was the eleventh since the Taliban seized power in 2021 in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US and NATO forces.

The execution was ordered after a death sentence was passed down by a court, an appeals court and the Supreme Court itself, before being approved by Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.

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Source: https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/02/afghanistans-taliban-rulers-carry-out-public-execution-in-sports-stadium


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