Taliban conduct large-scale public execution in Khost with 80,000 witnessing the retaliatory act of killing

03 December 2025 , 14:21

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Taliban conduct large-scale public execution in Khost with 80,000 witnessing the retaliatory act of killing

he man had been convicted along with another of entering a family home in Khost province and killing everyone inside by shooting them.

The victims’ relatives had been given the option of forgiveness and reconciliation, which could have spared the man’s life, but they instead requested the death penalty, as stated by the court.

The teenager shot the condemned man three times as some of the crowd of 80,000 shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’.

Mujib Rahman Rahmani, a Khost resident present at the stadium, expressed support for the grim event.

He mentioned that these executions could ‘prove to be positive’ because ‘no one will dare to commit murder in the future’.

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The Taliban had prohibited all camera phones from being brought into the stadium in the east of their country.

A previous public execution -- the 11th since the Taliban’s return to power -- took place in October, when another man was put to death in front of thousands.

During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the Taliban regularly conducted public executions, floggings, and stonings.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia law, which has included the reintroduction of public executions, as well as prohibitions on Afghan women and girls from attending secondary school and university education and from most forms of employment.

Corporal punishment — mainly flogging — has been prevalent under the Taliban authorities and employed for crimes including theft, adultery, and alcohol consumption.

Emily Hughes