KABUL (SW): In a viral video on the social media, a group of men and a girl in Kabul’s Qara Bagh district are seen presented before self-proclaimed ‘Mujahedeen’ in a kangaroo court.
In this video, the girl can be seen pleading, “Mulla Saheb, I have not done anything”. The incident is believed to have occurred on the 15th day of the month of Ramadan in which the men are charged for bringing the girl to the Qara Bagh district.
The four accused men, bruised and stained with dirt, plead guilty and accept verdict against them in line with the Sharia.
This kangaroo court ruling has sparked an outcry. Bilal Siddiqi, spokesman for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHR), said such a ruling clearly undermines the writ of the state and the rule of law. He urged the government to take the perpetrators into custody.
Commenting on this, Wadeer Safi, legal affairs expert, said only authorized state institutions have the right to trial accused people, not any other group or individuals.
The Kabul police spokesman, Hashmat Stanikzai, has vowed to investigate the matter, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
This is not the first incident of the sort. In different parts of Afghanistan, such so-called Sharia courts have been set-up in the past as well, but the incident of this sort in the capital clearly undermines the writ of the government.
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