Tolo News: Residents of Maimana city in Faryab province said because of road construction their homes were destroyed by the municipality. In addition, they say they have spent days without shelter, they are facing economic challenges, they cannot buy new homes, and the municipality must fulfil its commitment to provide compensation. Click here to read
8am: The Taliban rebels have beheaded a 17-year-old young boy in Andarab district of Baghlan province in front of his family members, local sources reported. This is not the first such a brutal case that is being reported. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban Rebels Torture & Arrest 36 Civilians in Panjshir
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2022 The United Nations says that almost one year since the Taliban take-over, the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has worsened considerably despite an overall significant reduction in armed violence. The Human Rights In Afghanistan report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), published on July 20, highlighted
8am: Sources in Ghazni say that the Taliban’s Department of Virtue Promotion in this province has warned all civil servants that the time of giving advice and tolerance toward them is over. Local sources in Ghazni province said on Wednesday (July 20th) that a delegation from the Taliban’s Virtue Promotion Ministry came to Ghazni province
Tolo News: More than 700 families have been displaced, due to security incidents, from Panjshir to Parwan, officials at the refugee and repatriations department of Parwan said. Bebe Begom, a 90-year-old woman, was displaced from Panjshir. Bebe Begom, due to fighting, left her house behind. She along with her family live in a small room
The Guardian (UK): As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them – The Taliban have asked female employees at Afghanistan’s finance ministry to send a male relative to do their job a year after female public-sector workers were barred from government work and
8am: Reliable sources in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) of Afghanistan have confirmed that in the last eleven months, 26 prosecutors of the former government have been killed in different parts of the country. Sources in the AGO told Hasht-e Subh Monday that these prosecutors have been killed since August last year. Click here to
Ariana: Amnesty International on Wednesday described the BBC’s findings of alleged war crimes by UK Special Forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2011 as horrific and called for an urgent investigation. “The BBC’s reporting outlines unlawful killings, including deliberate killing of individuals after they were detained, targeting of civilians and fabricating evidence to justify the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2022 Afghanistan and Pakistan are at the bottom of the global gender gap index for 2022, dragged down by the lack of opportunities for women in the conservative, male-dominated societies. The World Economic Forum, in a report released on July 13, says the two countries are joined by Iran in the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique July 13, 2022 Suleiman and his family have been living in hiding for months, constantly moving from place to place for fear of Taliban retribution. His family has been on the run since his elder brother, a former member of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, was killed soon after the Taliban toppled