Radio Shariah in Kabul announced that producing, selling and taking hashish and heroin were banned, according to the UN human-rights rapporteur's report. The Taliban representative in Islamabad told the rapporteur that drugs harmed health and were contrary to Islam, while seeking cooperation on eradication and alternative crops.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Afghanistan here.
References
- Interim report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, A/52/493United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan · 1997 · Printed p. 33, paragraph 130; report dated 16 October 1997; complete indexed paragraph read, PDF and original broadcast pendingarchived
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