Taliban publicly flog another 27 people in Parwan province, according to Tolo News sources

MADRID, 8 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Taliban have carried out a new flogging in public against 27 convicts, including nine women, in the province of Parwan, in the northeast of the country.

The Taliban high court has confirmed the guilty verdicts, without giving further details, but sources from the Afghan chain Tolo News have confirmed the nature of the punishment, which occurred in Charikar, the capital of the province.

The United Nations Office for Human Rights declared itself "dismayed" at the end of November by reports of the use of lashes as public punishment by the Taliban since their return to power in Afghanistan.

The Taliban leader, Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada, recently ordered Afghan judges to fully apply 'sharia' -- or Islamic law -- against those who commit a series of crimes that could be punished even with public amputations or stoning for crimes such as robbery, kidnapping or sedition.

Fundamentalists have established a government marked by a lack of women and representatives of other political and ethnic groups, while facing internal and international criticism for limiting the rights of the population, especially women and the girls.

In this sense, the UN expresses its concern about the "express" justice system established by the Taliban; one in which "arrests, court hearings, sentencing, and punishments often take place on the same day."