Afghanistan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- theocracy
- CONSTITUTION
- new, signed on January 16, 2004 (based on the one from 1964); suspended by the Taliban in 2021
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- the Taliban are applying their interpretation of Islamic law, which is partly based on the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- the Taliban government has not announced the formation of a legislative body
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court and many provincial courts, religious courts and specialized courts
RELIGIONS
Muslim 99.7% (Sunnis 84.7 - 89.7%, Shia 10 - 15%), other <0.3% (2009 est.)
From the country
- DECEMBER 10, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. IRAN PUBLICLY HANGS AFGHAN FOR CRIME COMMITTED AS MINOR
Iran publicly hanged Rostam Tajik, an Afghan national, for a crime he was alleged to have committed as a minor.
- DECEMBER 8, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. TWO GANG MEMBERS GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
a court in Kabul, Afghanistan, sentenced to death Hashmatullah and Mahmood
- DECEMBER 8, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. MURDER ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH
a primary court in Alisher district in Afghanistan’s south-eastern Khost province sentenced to death Hazer Mohammad for murdering one Abdul Akbar.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. CUTULI CASE, ITALIAN EMBASSY AWAITS CONFIRMATION OF DEATH SENTENCES
it was reported that the Italian embassy in Kabul may ask for the commutation into life imprisonment of the death sentences handed down to brothers Zar Jan and Abdul Wahid for the murders of Maria Grazia Catulli and three other journalists in November 200
- OCTOBER 28, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTY
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an Afghan court ruled that two brothers should be executed for their involvement in the killing of four journalists in 2001.
- OCTOBER 23, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. EDITOR GIVEN TWO YEARS' JAIL FOR BLASPHEMY
the editor of a women's magazine, Haqooq-i-Zan (women's rights), was jailed for two years in Afghanistan after being convicted of publishing anti-Islamic articles, including one challenging a belief that Muslims who converted to other religions should be
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCES MAN TO EXECUTION, WOMAN TO FLOGGING AND JAIL
a court in Iran sentenced a woman to 100 lashes and 15 years jail time and an Afghan man to execution on charges of murder, Persian-language websites reported.
- AUGUST 23, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERER
a lower court in Kabul, Afghanistan, sentenced to death two men charged with the murder of a hire car driver. Sala Khan and Mohammad Juma, from Alishang district of the eastern Laghman province, were convicted by the Ninth District's court of killing Abdu
- AUGUST 21, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE, 10-YEAR JAIL TERM
a lower court in Afghanistan awarded the death penalty to Ahmad Jahesh, a man charged with murder, abduction and adultery.
- JULY 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING
the semi-official Saudi Ukaz daily said a tribunal in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah had sentenced a Pakistani and an Afghan to death for smuggling heroin into the country.
- JUNE 6, 2005AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. SUPREME COURT WILL CONSIDER WILL OF CUTULI FAMILY IN TRIALS OF ZAR JAN AND REZA KHAN
“We take very much into consideration the will of the family of Maria Grazia Cutuli, their requests are very influential,” stated an internal source at the Afghan Supreme Court the day after the arrest of Mohamed Zar Jan, presumed leader of the gang which
- JUNE 1, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE AFGHANS CONVICTED OF RAPE PUT TO DEATH BY HANGING
three Afghans convicted of raping an Iranian woman and stealing a sheep were hanged in the southern town of Ravar in Iran’s Kerman province. The three men -- identified as Nazar Mohammad, Kheyrollah, and Besmellah -- were reported to have been in the Isla