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Some punishments specified in the newly published Penal Code of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

🔹 Those who force animals or birds to fight each other: five months’ imprisonment. 🔹 Arms dealers: one year’s imprisonment. 🔹 Gamblers: four months’ imprisonment. 🔹 Those who sell human body organs: one year’s imprisonment. 🔹 Those who commit sodomy: two years’ imprisonment; if it is habitual, capital punishment. 🔹 False witnesses: forty lashes. 🔹 […]

🔹 Those who force animals or birds to fight each other: five months’ imprisonment.

🔹 Arms dealers: one year’s imprisonment.

🔹 Gamblers: four months’ imprisonment.

🔹 Those who sell human body organs: one year’s imprisonment.

🔹 Those who commit sodomy: two years’ imprisonment; if it is habitual, capital punishment.

🔹 False witnesses: forty lashes.

🔹 Bribe-givers and bribe-takers: two years’ imprisonment; intermediaries: six months’ imprisonment.

🔹 Drug sellers: five years’ imprisonment.

🔹 Kidnappers: ten years’ imprisonment.

🔹 Those who break the fast (eat during Ramadan): twenty lashes and two months’ imprisonment.

🔹 If a Muslim calls another Muslim a disbeliever, immoral, or Wicked without justification: forty lashes.

🔹 If someone unjustly beats his wife: fifteen days’ imprisonment.

🔹 If a teacher beats a student: dismissal from duty.

🔹 If someone insults the Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him): if they do not repent, they are considered an apostate and liable to execution; if they repent, six years’ imprisonment.

🔹 Forgery of signatures: three years’ imprisonment.

🔹 Drug traffickers: from one to seven years’ imprisonment.

🔹 Dancers/performers and spectators alike: two months’ imprisonment.

🔹 Sexual relations with a non-mahram (touching, handshaking, hugging): one year’s imprisonment

⚠️ It should be noted that these punishments are stated to be determined in the light of Islamic Sharia and Hanafi jurisprudence.

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