Ariana: Following the last year’s chaotic parliamentary elections, more than 230 people including senior employees of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has been referred to the Attorney General’s office over alleged election crimes. Jamshid Rasooli, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s office on Monday said they have registered at least 80 cases of election-related crimes and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 3, 2019 An Afghan court has convicted three men for their alleged involvement in the murder of a BBC journalist last year, officials say. A primary court in the Bagram district of the central Parwan Province, where the accused are imprisoned, sentenced one of the men to death, the Attorney
1TV: Afghanistan’s attorney general has agreed to release Nizamuddin Qaisari, a powerful police commander in north, who was arrested in July… Qaisari to be banned from travelling to foreign countries and that he would remain in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 16, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump says he will review the case of a former U.S. Army officer charged with murder for the 2010 killing of a man he suspected of being a Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan. “At the request of many. I will be reviewing the case of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2018 A U.S. Army Green Beret major has been charged with murder in the death of an Afghan man during his 2010 deployment to the war-torn country, the U.S. military says. A spokesman said on December 13 that Major Matthew Golsteyn’s commander had determined that “sufficient evidence exists” to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 4, 2018 An Afghan police officer and a security guard have been killed in Kabul during a 24-hour standoff between police and the stepson of Afghanistan’s former defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak. Six police officers and a journalist were also wounded in the gunbattle that began on December 3. Afghanistan’s
Tolo News: An investigation, involving the death of an Afghan commando (Wahidullah Khan), is being carried out after he was allegedly beaten to death while in Resolute Support custody in the west of Afghanistan. “He was arrested alive, they tortured him which is against the law and he died under torture, we call on government to
Ariana: Commander Alipoor has apologized for his actions and asked for forgiveness from the government after he was released on bill with meditation of Second Vice President Sarwar Danish and elders. “If I made any mistake, I apologize for it and I ask the government officials to forgive me,” Alipoor said. “I am ready to register my weapons
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: The scenes of a public flogging in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan showed two women in blue burqas kneeling nearly motionless as a man beat them over their heads and bodies with a cane. The women, whose names have not been released, had been found guilty of breaking the Taliban’s
Tolo News: Greece police have detained 40 Afghan nationals for questioning following a large brawl on Saturday between a group of Afghan and Syrian migrants at a state-run camp of Malakasa, on the outskirts of Athens, that resulted in the death of a 31-year-old Syrian man, according to Greece’s local newspaper Kathimerini report. Click here to