Over 350,000 cases addressed in 3 years: SC

KABUL (Pajhwok): Over 350,000 cases have been addressed and resolved and 8,799 prisoners released during the past three years, the country’s Apex Court has said.

The Supreme Court (SC) spokesman Mawlavi Abdul Rahim Rashid told Pajhwok Afghan News 354,405 different cases were finalized during the past three years.

Based on different verdicts by the courts of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), about 123 convicts served their punishments, Rashid said.

The convicts were punished for different crimes such as thefts, sodomy, adultery, elopement and drugs related crimes, he explained. 

According to his information, 234 criminals were punished during the first four months of the current solar year. 

Rashid added more prisoners had to be punished and then released on the eve of Eids during the past four months.

However the SC had shared the figures about the punishments of the convicts during the past 16 months, but Rashid did not make any comments about the number of the convicts’ punishments prior to that time.

According to the reports of Pajhwok, the government of the IEA released 8,799 prisoners from July 2022 until the April 2024.

Nine hundred and thirty five prisoners were released from prisons nationwide in July 2022 for the occasion of Eid Ul Adha.

On the order of Supreme Court, 2,460 prisoners were released and the punishments of 471 other prisoners were reduced for the occasion of Eid-ul- Fitr on April 19 2023.

Another order of the SC paved the way for the release of 2,200 prisoners on June 28 2023.

On April 8, 2024 the officials of the SC announced that 2,855 prisoners were released from the prisons in compliance with an order from the IEA supreme leader.

The SC further announced the release of 359 prisoners from the prisons with an order from the supreme leader of the IEA on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The IEA regain power in Afghanistan three years ago on Aug 15 2021.

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