The Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced on Monday, April 24, that its inspectors have arrested six people in four provinces on charges of “sorcery.” According to the ministry’s statement, these individuals were arrested in Kabul, Balkh, Jowzjan, and Daikundi, and have been referred to Taliban courts.
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice wrote on its website that the arrested individuals were “referred to the judicial and legal authorities in these provinces after completing the religious procedures.”
The ministry has banned “fortune telling, sorcery, and witchcraft” in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the former spokesperson of the Ministry, had stated that “according to Sharia, the killing of sorcerers and witches is permissible.”
Previously, the ministry’s inspectors have arrested many others on similar charges.
