{"id":3977,"date":"2025-12-23T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/taliban-supreme-court-prisoners-military-courts-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:45:22","slug":"taliban-supreme-court-prisoners-military-courts-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/taliban-supreme-court-prisoners-military-courts-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Supreme Court Reports Over 1,000 Prisoners Held Under Military Court Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Supreme Court has announced that from July to late August this year, at least 1,163 individuals have been imprisoned based on rulings issued by the administration\u2019s military courts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement from this body, these individuals were sentenced to prison within processes the Taliban refer to as &#8220;military courts.&#8221; However, clear information regarding the identities of the prisoners, the nature of their charges, the decision-makers involved, and details of the judicial proceedings has not been disclosed to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The limited release of information about the judicial process and sentencing has heightened concerns among human rights organizations and the country&#8217;s residents\u2014especially given that the judiciary under Taliban rule operates independently of public oversight and accepted legal standards.<\/p>\n<p>Critics stress that the lack of transparency, the accused\u2019s inability to access legal counsel, and the unclear criteria for issuing sentences could pave the way for violations of the fundamental rights of Afghan citizens\u2014a matter the Taliban administration has yet to address openly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Supreme Court says over 1,000 people have been jailed under military court rulings amid concerns over transparency and human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}