The new Afghani governement has announced that it will be easing up on the Islamic sharia justice, though the specifics are cold comfort:
“For example, the Taliban used to hang the victim’s body in public for four days. We will only hang the body for a short time, say 15 minutes.”
Kabul’s sports stadium, where the Taliban used to carry out public executions and amputations every Friday, would no longer be used.
“The stadium is for sports. We will find a new place for public executions,” he said.
Adulterers, both male and female, would still be stoned to death, Zarif said, “but we will use only small stones.”
(via FOJO)