Tolo News: Ahmad Eshchi, former deputy head of National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, who claims to have been sexually abused by the First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum and his bodyguards, maintains he wants the prosecution of the main suspect. While welcoming the recent questioning of seven of Dostum’s guards, Eshchi urged the government to ensure
AFP: Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for “bacha bazi” – sexual slavery and abuse of boys – for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice. AFP revealed last year how the Taliban were exploiting rampant bacha bazi in police ranks to mount deadly insider attacks, exposing
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s attorney general ordered the arrest of nine of First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum’s bodyguards on charges related to the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a political rival, who accused the vice president of sodomizing him with a rifle. Dostum has denied the accusations. His office called them a baseless effort to
IWPR: Campaigners are calling for the Afghan government to follow through on promises to change parts of Afghanistan’s penal code that they argue actually serves to legimitise violence against women. Article 398 of the Afghan penal code states that a man who sees “his wife or other family members” in a compromising position and kills or
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 2, 2017 Afghan officials have arrested four suspects in the killing last month of five female airport employees and their driver in the southern province of Kandahar. Security officials brought three of the suspects to a press conference in Kandahar late on January 1, saying the men had admitted to
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 30, 2016 Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan have demanded authorities investigate attacks against members of their communities, after a local Sikh community leader was shot dead in the northern city of Kunduz. Narmang Singh, a shopkeeker also known as Dilsoz, was killed by gunmen on his way to work
Washington Post: For 30 years, Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum has reigned as northern Afghanistan’s untouchable warrior-king: first as a ruthless pro-communist general, later as an armed U.S. ally against the Taliban and finally as a reliable, if unsavory, political boss who could deliver votes from his ethnic Uzbek followers. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Batur Eshchi, son of Ahmad Eshchi, the former governor of Jawzjan province, has dismissed so-called forensic evidence issued by the first vice president’s office regarding his father’s case and said the document is fake. Eshchi claims to have been beaten and sexually assaulted on First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum’s orders. On Friday,
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 22, 2016 Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has refused a summons by the country’s attorney general over allegations that he and his bodyguards assaulted and abducted a political rival at a sports event in northern Afghanistan last month. On December 22, Dostum’s chief of staff, Enayatullah Babur Farhamand, called
Tolo News: The United States has called for an impartial and serious investigation into allegations made by former member of National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, Ahmad Eshchi, against the First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum. A spokesman for U.S Secretary of State John Kirby said they are upset about the alleged illegal arrest and treatment of