ISLAMABAD: The Taliban's treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to a crime against humanity and should be investigated and prosecuted under international law, a team of United Nations-appointed experts said on Friday.
The experts' statement followed confirmation from the Taliban that three women were among 12 people lashed on Wednesday in front of hundreds of spectators at a provincial sports stadium. It signaled the hardline Islamist group's resumption of a brutal form of punishment that was a hallmark of their rule in the 1990s.
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