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Boy, Girl Beaten to 100 Lashes for Fornication
A boy and a girl were each beaten with 100 whips for fornication following a court verdict in the central Ghor province of Afghanistan.
“The couple confessed to their sexual relation and they were punished according to the article number one hundred and thirty of the Afghan Constitution and article number one of the Afghan Criminal Law,” Atta Mohammad Faroqi, provincial chief of primary court said on Monday.
Faroqi added, the boy and the girl were arrested by Afghan police in Feroz Koh city of Ghor province 20 days ago for having sexual relations and each of them were sentenced to be punished with hundred whips.
According to Faroqi each of them were lashed openly in the presence of local officials and religious scholars in the yard of the court.
The girl and the boy were released after being punished by the court.