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Taliban Fighters Try to Arrest Their Mayor for Samangan on Charges of Prostitution

2nd May, 2022 · admin

8am: Confirming the incident, local sources told Hasht-e Subh that Mawlawi Raihan, the mayor of Samangan, was under siege by Commander Jafar’s forces during the “adultery” act. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Taliban | Tags: Samangan |
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At Least One Killed, Dozens Hurt In Blast At Afghan Foreign-Exchange Market

3rd April, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal April 3, 2022 At least one person was killed and dozens more injured in an explosion at the Sarai Shahzadaa foreign-exchange market in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say. Haji Dad Gul, deputy head of the currency exchange association, told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal on April 3 that the explosion was caused by

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Security, Taliban | Tags: Crime in Kabul, Kabul, Taliban Security Failure |
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A Taliban Commander Murders His Wife and Her Brother in Takhar

3rd April, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources in Takhar province have reported that a local Taliban commander named Mir Saeed has shot dead his wife and her brother in Abdal village, Taleqan city, the center of the province, on Saturday, April 2. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Security, Taliban | Tags: Takhar |
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Parents of Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan start legal action against Taliban

22nd March, 2022 · admin

Reuters: The parents of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, have begun legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Islamist group, a lawyer for the family said on Tuesday. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Taliban | Tags: War Crime |
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Afghan Brothers Go On Trial In Germany For Honor Killing Of Sister

2nd March, 2022 · admin

Reuters: The defendants, identified as Sayed H. and Seyed H. under German privacy laws, are accused of luring their 34-year-old sister to meet them last July in Berlin and choking her and cutting her throat, the Berlin prosecutor’s office said. All three siblings had Afghan citizenship and had been living in Germany for several years.

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Germany-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: "Honor Killing" |
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Court on Afghanistan told: Ex-Aussie commander said ‘I just want to kill’

26th February, 2022 · admin

Press TV February 26, 2022 A former Australian army commander accused of war crimes while serving in Afghanistan as part of a US-led occupation force told another soldier “I just want to kill [expletive],” a witness has said during a court hearing. Testifying in a federal court case in which the ex-commander, Ben Roberts-Smith, is

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights | Tags: War Crime |
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Taliban Publicly Flogs Afghan Man Accused Of Adultery

22nd February, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi February 22, 2022 A man accused of adultery has been publicly whipped by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan Province. Several residents of provincial capital Tarin Kowt told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi that the man was flogged in the city’s central square on February 21 in the morning. Tarin Kowt resident Noor Agha,

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Taliban | Tags: Uruzgan |
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Dutch court puts Afghan ‘prison chief’ on trial for war crimes

16th February, 2022 · admin

Al Jazeera: Prosecutors say that from 1983 to 1990, he was the chief of Pul-e-Charkhi prison east of Kabul, where regime opponents were held without fair trial in “appalling conditions”. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, History, Human Rights | Tags: War Crime |
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A Religious Scholar Killed in Kabul

18th December, 2021 · admin

8am: The Taliban named this religious scholar Mawlawi Bismillah Shakir and specified that he was the co-principle of the supreme Arabic Darul Uloom in Kabul, according to Bakhtar news agency. In the meantime, the number of explosions in Kabul has increased since the takeover, and most of these explosions have been claimed by the Islamic

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Security, Taliban | Tags: Taliban Security Failure |
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No U.S. Troops To Be Punished Over Kabul Strike That Killed Civilians

14th December, 2021 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 13, 2021 No U.S. military personnel will be held accountable for a Kabul drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, in August, the Pentagon has said. An investigation by the U.S. Air Force inspector-general last month called the August 29 strike, which took place during the U.S.-led

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Posted in Afghan Children, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Crime and Punishment, Drone warfare, Human Rights, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: War Crime |
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