The horrible display came a day after a notorious Taliban functionary advised that extreme corrections similar as prosecutions and amputations would renew.
The men were killed in a gun battle after allegedly seizing a businessman and his son, a original functionary said.
Original residers said a body was hung from a crane in the megacity centre.
Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, a original shopkeeper, told the Associated Press news agency that four bodies were brought to the forecourt, one was hung there and the three other bodies were moved to other places in the megacity to be displayed.
The deputy governor of Herat, Maulwai Shair, said displaying the bodies was done to discourage farther rapes. He said the men were killed in a gun battle after the Taliban learnt that they had abducted a businessman and his son-who were both freed.
Still, graphic images participated on social media appeared to show bloody bodies on the reverse of a pick-up truck with a crane hoisting one man up.
Another videotape showed a man suspended from a crane with a sign on his casket reading”Abductors will be penalized like this.”
Since taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a milder form of rule than in their former term.
But there have formerly been multitudinous reports of mortal rights abuses carried out across the country.
The Taliban’s notorious former head of religious police Mullah Nooruddin Turabi- now in charge of incarcerations- said on Thursday that extreme corrections similar as prosecutions and amputations would renew in Afghanistan as they were” necessary for security”.
In an interview with AP, he said these corrections may not be allocate out in public, as they were under former Taliban rule in the 1990s. Public prosecutions were constantly held in Kabul’s sports colosseum or on the vast grounds of the Eid Gah synagogue during the group’s five time rule.
But he dismissed outrage over their once public prosecutions” No-one will tell us what our laws should be.”
Turabi-who’s on a UN warrants list for his once conduct- added that”everyone criticised us for the corrections in the colosseum, but we’ve noway said anything about their laws and corrections”.
In August, Amnesty International said that Taliban fighters were behind the butchery of nine members of the bedeviled Hazara nonage.
Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said at the time that the” cold-thoroughbred brutality”of the killings was”a memorial of the Taliban’s once record, and a horrifying index of what Taliban rule may bring”.
