21.   Mohammed sobbed before the punishment was carried out and acknowledged his crime.

22.   Public punishments were carried out in Kabul before the Taliban took power.

23.   Such courts have no legal standing, but their punishments are carried out.

24.   Such investigations are separate from criminal proceedings and do not carry punishments, Tomizawa said, but the ministry may refer matters to the police for criminal investigation.

25.   Taliban punishments are generally carried out in public.

26.   Such courts have no legal standing, but their punishments are carried out in remote villages.

27.   The army did not say what punishment the charges carry.

28.   The charges carry maximum punishments of death or life imprisonment.

29.   The punishment was carried out to set an example, it added.

30.   The punishment was carried out in southern Kandahar, the seat of the Taliban-run government.