By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 2, 2022 A young Afghan woman has accused a Taliban official of beating, raping, and forcibly marrying her in a video that has gone viral. Elaha Delawazai, a medical student at Kabul University, made the allegations against former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosty in a video that surfaced on social
By Frud Bezhan RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 26, 2021 KABUL — For nearly 20 years, women’s shelters were a sanctuary for hundreds of Afghan girls and women trying to escape domestic abuse, sexual violence, and forced marriages. Now, since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last month, dozens of safe houses across Afghanistan have shut down
CNN: US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Click here to read more (external
By Frud Bezhan RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 14, 2021 KABUL — The road to Kabul’s international airport is clogged with thousands of people who are rushing to leave the country. Thousands of others stand in long queues, stretching for kilometers, outside the capital’s only passport office, desperately trying to secure travel documents. Others frantically rush around
With Taliban’s rapid advance, many women in Afghanistan are fleeing their homes, fearing murder, rape and forced marriage. pic.twitter.com/p4uSMiLIXy — DW News (@dwnews) August 13, 2021
Taliban militants are seizing girls and forcing them into marriage, according to an Afghan woman who fled her home for safety in Kabul. Zar Begum was among thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) sleeping in a Kabul park. Another IDP said the Taliban was forcing people to give them food.
Heather Murdoch VOA News August 11, 2021 VAN, TURKEY – Afghan clothes and Iranian SIM cards litter fields under the mountains that stand between Turkey and the Iranian border. A wisp of smoke rises out of what was a small fire, abandoned many hours before. As the Taliban swept through villages and cities in Afghanistan
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 4, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The Taliban condemned the United States on Wednesday for what they described as “plain interference” in Afghanistan by offering to resettle Afghan civilians with affiliations to international forces who could be targeted by the insurgent group. Washington on Monday announced the program that offers thousands