New York Post: The tragic death of the girl, Henna, occurred more than a month after her family applied for Special Immigrant Visas to leave the Taliban-controlled country — but, according to her grief-stricken relatives, her family has not heard back from the US government. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Abdulrabb Rasul has asked the Taliban to express their opinion about these [suicide] attacks, and are their views changed regarding suicide attacks or not? “Are suicide training camps closed or are they still training people?”, Sayyaf also added. Click here to read more (external link).
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from Ghazni, Afghanistan, on the reality of the Taliban’s new regime of justice in Afghanistan. Click here to view (external link).
By Ron Synovitz Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 2, 2021 When the Taliban-led government says it is implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan, it is referring to its own strict Sunni interpretation of Shari’a. There is no universal Islamic law, because Shari’a is open to different interpretations among the five main schools of Islamic jurisprudence: four Sunni
New York Post: Ten percent of the approximately 700-person prison population are considered to be convicted or accused criminals – murderers, thieves, drug dealers and traitors. The rest are drug addicts who have been swept from the streets in the weeks since the Taliban came to power in mid-August. Click here to read more (external
مسؤول الإستخبارات من طالبان في پنجشير يعترف بوجود عملية تطهير عرقِي وجرائم تعدِّي تحدث هناكMaulvi Aghamir, the head of Taliban intelligence for Panjshir, confesses to the tyranny and war crimes of the Taliban in this province!#DoNotRecognizeTaliban#StopGenocideinPanjshir pic.twitter.com/g0Wui1qVxr — Ascia | شهنامة (@S7RZ) September 29, 2021
VOA News September 27, 2021 The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday asked the tribunal for permission to resume a war crimes investigation into the actions of the Taliban and Islamic State-Khorasan in Afghanistan. The ICC had spent 15 years investigating alleged war crimes in war-torn Afghanistan, but the probe
Happy Saturday America – aren’t you proud of your leaders & your tax dollars going to support such a good cause? You cannot imagine how excited & happy all Afghans are to have this type of justice back rather than the “failed American experiment”known as freedom & rights. pic.twitter.com/7VTYMjEAiW — Lara Logan (@laralogan) September 25,
AP: One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique Ron Synovitz September 21, 2021 KABUL — Afghanistan’s former prosecutors once worked to rid their country of its most dangerous criminals by building court cases to put them behind bars. Now, former prosecutors are hiding themselves from those same criminals — the murderers and drug dealers who were freed by