Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2022 Chanting “Bread, work, freedom,” some two dozen women took to the streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul on May 29 to protest against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. The Taliban has rolled back women’s rights since returning to power in August 2021. Girls have been
8am: Taliban fighters in Baghlan province have committed inhumane acts and war crimes by evicting residents from their villages. Local sources in Baghlan province have said that the Taliban have forcibly evicted about 70 families from three districts in the Andrab region, accusing them of being members of the National Resistance Front (NRF). Click here
NYT: The multibillion-dollar trade has survived previous bans. Now, the Taliban are going after solar-powered water pumps to try to dry up poppy crops in the middle of a national economic crisis. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Residents of Uruzgan province say that due to the lack of school buildings, students from the province’s more than 30 schools continue their education in the open. The Uruzgan education department reported that 32 schools in the province’s capital Tirinkot were destroyed during conflicts between the former government’s forces and the Islamic Emirate
8am: The female police officer added that after seven hours in custody of Intelligence Department of Taliban, she was released off with the mediation of elders, and her husband, who was a taxi driver, was forced to buy a weapon to give the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Health sources have reported that two suspected cases of monkeypox were identified and recorded on Saturday at a Covid-19 Hospital in Nimroz Province. Sources in the province say the two incidents were recorded among migrants deported from Iran. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The head of the Taliban’s Virtue Promotion, Mawlawi Abdul Rahman, has ordered the province’s urban transportation services not to give ride women alone in cars, rickshaws, and bikes. According to him, carrying women alone in cars causes moral corruption. Click here to read more (external link).
May 28, 2022 TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan said that 16 children have been killed in the country in only the last two days. Mohamed Ag Ayoya, the UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, stated in a tweet on Friday, May 27, that violence against children should be stopped