VOA News May 2, 2016 Afghanistan’s president is expected to soon sign the execution orders for prisoners who have been convicted on terrorism-related charges. Ashraf Ghani promised to expedite the execution process for insurgents sentenced to death, following the April 19 explosion in Kabul that killed 64 people and wounded an additional 300. The president’s
Tolo News: Family members and a number of activists called for justice on Saturday during a protest rally over the kidnapping and murder of Abaseen, a teenager from Kabul. Abaseen’s family members said that they themselves will take action, if the government fails to do so. The protesters were chanting slogans of ‘the government should put an
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 29, 2016 The U.S. military has disciplined about 16 U.S. personnel, including a two-star general, for mistakes that led to the bombing of a civilian hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people. A senior U.S. official said on April 28 that no criminal charges were filed and the
Human Rights Watch: The Afghan government should deliver on promises to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s ongoing analysis of the grave crimes committed in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch and the Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) said today in a letter to President Ashraf Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Mehdi Jedinia, Noor Zahid April 18, 2016 The rape and murder of an Afghan refugee girl in Iran has fueled outrage in Afghanistan and drawn diplomatic protest from Kabul. The six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and then murdered by her Iranian kidnapper last week in Varamin, a poor suburb of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The
Khaama Press: Afghan police have arrested two men appearing in a documentary film about the sexual abuse of children in Afghanistan, local officials in Balkh said. The two men appeared in a documentary prepared by a Russian TV Channel about Bacha Bazi, sexual abuse of children. Provincial police chief Syed Kamal Sadat said the two men, Jabar and
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 7 (Xinhua) — Some six persons, including four women, were stabbed to death Wednesday night in northern Afghan province of Balkh, a police official said Thursday. “The victims were members of the same family and the incident took place in Shir Abad village, Dihdadi District, southwestern of provincial capital of Mazar-i-Sharif city,”
Tolo News: Leading women’s rights and civil society activists on Friday condemned the escalating violence and human rights violations in the country and called for government to take action in order to curb the trend and preserve the rights of women. The activists also denounced open trials and asked the government to serve justice on the culprits
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2016 Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets in Kabul to commemorate the death anniversary of a woman killed by a mob. In March last year, a Kabul mob brutally attacked 27-year-old Farkhunda Malikzada outside a shrine in the Afghan capital, after one of the men in the
ICRC: In 2009, James Nachtwey joined us in Afghanistan, where the authorities allowed him to take photographs in a prison visited by the ICRC. Today, seven years later, the ICRC is still working with detainees in Afghanistan, visiting them to check on their conditions and helping them stay in touch with their families. Click here for