The Taliban have publicly executed a large number of people over the past five years, shooting them in front of crowds with their hands tied. In the latest case, the Hasht-e Subh Daily has obtained a video showing a 30-year-old man in Herat shot dead by the Taliban after being tortured and beaten, his hands bound. It remains unclear exactly how the incident unfolded. People close to the young man say that if he had committed a crime, the Taliban should have summoned him and brought him before their courts rather than shooting him in public with his hands tied. His mother has called on senior Taliban officials to investigate her son’s case. Sources had earlier confirmed that a man was killed by the Taliban in Herat on Friday.

Local sources shared a video showing a man shot after being tortured and having his hands bound. They identified him as 30-year-old Abdul Qadir Pahlawanzada. He was shot at five o’clock last Friday afternoon in Herat’s fourth district, at checkpoint number one near a fuel depot, by the brother-in-law of a Taliban commander. The video shows the young man being shot by an individual after being tortured with his hands tied.

According to sources, the video shows Sayed Ahmad Mohammadi, the Taliban’s security commander for Pashtun Zarghun district, along with his brother and brother-in-law. Sources say the commander carried out the killing because he had earlier persuaded his brother-in-law to let him marry his sister in exchange for the murder.

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