Law in Afghanistan under the Taliban

Nooruddin Turabi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments. No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran. Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security. Our deeds will show that we are not like the Americans who say that they stand for human rights but committed terrible crimes. There will be no more torture and no more hunger. We have a constitution but we will introduce changes to it and, based on those changes, we will revise the civil and criminal codes and the rules for civilians. There will be much less prisoners because we will follow the rules of Islam, humane rules. People worry about some of our rules, for example cutting hands. But this is public demand. If you cut off a hand of a person, he will not commit the same crime again. People are now corrupt, extorting money from others, taking bribes. We will bring peace and stability. Once we introduce our rules, no one will dare to break them.”

Aljazeera

Taliban leader in charge of prisons in Afghanistan and former justice minister in the 1996-2001 Taliban government in Afghanistan