albawaba: The Taliban’s belief in Pashtun supremacy in Afghanistan and their disdain for practitioners of Shi’a Islam, whom they consider apostates, places Hazaras at critical risk of future ethnically motivated mass killings. The Taliban famously have a saying: ‘Tajiks to Tajikistan, Uzbeks to Uzbekistan, and Hazaras to goristan’ (cemetery in Pashto). This attitude has prevailed
Two gay Afghan men have told RFE/RL they live in constant fear under Taliban rule and have to meet their partners in secret. In a January report, Human Rights Watch found LGBT people in Afghanistan faced a “desperate situation and grave threats to their safety” with reports of killings, gang rapes, and mob attacks.
HRW: Two years ago today, former Tolo News TV presenter Yama Siawash was killed in a car bombing on November 7, 2020, moments after he climbed into a government-owned vehicle in Kabul. Despite the high-profile nature of the attack, the former Afghan government failed to carry out a thorough investigation or prosecute anyone for the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 4, 2022 The United Nations human rights office has voiced concern over the detention of five people after the Taliban disrupted a press conference in Kabul intended to launch a new women’s movement. One woman, Zarifa Yaqobi, and four male colleagues were arrested at the event and remained in detention
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 2, 2022 Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers declared a general amnesty for their former foes who fought them for two decades as part of the Western-backed Afghan government. But supporters of a late Afghan general say they have been under relentless Taliban persecution for the more than 14 months since
Amnesty International: “The Office of the Prosecutor must reconsider its overtly selective approach which deprioritised investigations against powerful actors, including the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and members of the Unites States military and CIA, to ensure justice to all victims of the Afghan conflict.” Click here to read more (external link).
8am: After taking over Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban became the country’s sole ruling force in terms of political and social power. As a result, they began to do things that had previously only occurred in their imaginations. The commanders of this group have chosen beautiful young women and girls for marriage under
8am: The Taliban have increased the pressure on female students at Badakhshan University for some time now. The officials of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice department for the Badakhshan province have made it mandatory for female students to wear a burqa, and do not allow girls who do
AP: Judges have approved a request by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor to reopen an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, saying Afghan authorities are not carrying out meaningful probes into the alleged crimes. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Residents told Hasht-e Subh on Friday (October 28th) that Taliban fighters have turned “the Markaz-e Bandar Seminary” in Sangtakht-Wa-Bandar district in Daikundi province into a military base. One of the residents of this district, who does not want his identity to be revealed, says that the Taliban in the mentioned district threw away the