{"id":71506,"date":"2025-05-06T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/06\/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:00:03","slug":"whipped-in-front-of-everyone-three-women-on-being-flogged-by-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71506","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Whipped in front of everyone\u2019: three women on being flogged by the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of women forced to confess to \u2018moral crimes\u2019 they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Three Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of \u201cmoral crimes\u201d have bravely spoken out about the cruelty they endured.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 people \u2013 at least 200 of whom were women \u2013 are now known to have been humiliated in public floggings since the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2021, according to court records and <a href=\"https:\/\/8am.media\/fa\/taliban-field-courts-in-less-than-three-years-715-people-have-been-flogged-in-public\/\">media reports<\/a>. The true numbers are probably much higher.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/06\/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of women forced to confess to \u2018moral crimes\u2019 they did not commit have been publicly lashed in AfghanistanThree Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of \u201cmoral crimes\u201d have bravely spoken out about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3300,59,53,447,86,371,2345,79,61,44,281,3282,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corporal-punishment","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-law","category-religion","category-sharia-law","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-women-under-the-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71507,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506\/revisions\/71507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}