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One Experience, Two Perspectives: Inside the Lives of Women in Taliban’s Detention Centers in Kabul

6th April, 2024 · admin

8am: This report features an interview with a girl who was arrested on charges of engaging in extramarital relationships and transferred to Kabul province’s detention center from the Pul-e Surkh area of Kabul. This girl recounts the bitter and horrifying experience of physical and psychological torture, suicide, forced marriages, the exploitation of girls as sexual

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Posted in Afghan Women, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, prisoners, Sexual Assault, Taliban Rapists, Taliban war on women |
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From Torture to Sexual Assault and Murder: What’s Happening in the Taliban’s Women’s Prisons?

15th May, 2023 · admin

8am: Female prisoners in Taliban-controlled prisons in the provinces of Jowzjan, Faryab, and Samangan are enduring a deplorable situation. They face humiliation, insults, physical torture, and sexual assault. According to the findings of Hasht-e Subh Daily, since the collapse of the Republic regime, the Taliban have detained and imprisoned 90 women in the three northern

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Posted in Afghan Women, Corruption, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, prisoners, Taliban Rapists, Taliban torture, Taliban war on women |
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Taliban Releases 41 Prisoners, Including 7 Women in Afghanistan’s Ghor Province

17th April, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Under the condition of anonymity, a professor of sociology stated that the release of the detainees and the exemption are positive developments. The de facto government, on the other hand, “unfortunately criminalized numerous cases and termed its moral corruption, and now they consider it the same as drug trafficking, and this is worrying, he

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Taliban | Tags: Ghor, prisoners |
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Iran, Taliban Discuss Release Of Iranian Nationals From Afghan Prisons

4th April, 2023 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi April 4, 2023 The Taliban government is compiling a list of Iranian nationals imprisoned in Afghanistan for possible release following Tehran’s recent handover of hundreds of Afghan prisoners. Taliban Prosecutor-General Shamsuddin Pahlawan met with Iran’s deputy ambassador to Afghanistan, Hasan Mortazavi, in Kabul on April 3 to discuss the ongoing prisoner-release efforts. The development

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: prisoners |
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524 Afghans freed from Pakistani prisons return to Afghanistan

9th January, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Five hundred and twenty-four Afghans arrived in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar at around 10 pm on Sunday night after being freed from Pakistani prisons. Officials in Kandahar met them, provided the necessary facilities for them and said they will return to their homes Monday morning. According to the governor’s media office, Afghans who

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: prisoners |
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US Welcomes Release of 2 Americans from Taliban Detention

21st December, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News December 20, 2022 The State Department has welcomed the release of two U.S. nationals from Taliban detention in Afghanistan. The two were en route to Qatar on Tuesday from where they will fly to the U.S. to reunite with their families. “We are in a position to welcome the release of

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Posted in Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: prisoners |
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Condition of prisoners in Taliban prisons

26th July, 2022 · admin

8am: Since August 2021, the Taliban group has imprisoned thousands of citizens of the country for various pretexts. Most of these prisoners are former government affiliates (security employees, army soldiers and national police). Many civilians, particularly youths have been arrested on charges of collaborating with the National Resistance Front (NRF) and armed groups fighting against

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, prisoners, Taliban torture |
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Afghanistan’s Former Prosecutors Hunted By Criminals They Helped Convict

21st September, 2021 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique Ron Synovitz September 21, 2021 KABUL — Afghanistan’s former prosecutors once worked to rid their country of its most dangerous criminals by building court cases to put them behind bars. Now, former prosecutors are hiding themselves from those same criminals — the murderers and drug dealers who were freed by

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Security, Taliban | Tags: prisoners |
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Afghanistan to Discuss Fate of Foreign IS Prisoners with Their Countries

3rd May, 2021 · admin

Roshan Noorzai VOA News May 3, 2021 The Afghan government said it plans to begin talks with 14 countries to discuss what to do with hundreds of their citizens who have been captured while fighting alongside the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP). Ahamd Zia Saraj, the head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security | Tags: prisoners |
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Dozens rescued from Taliban prison in Herat

3rd March, 2021 · admin

Ariana: Afghan forces have rescued 34 people from a Taliban prisoner in western Herat province, the Defense Ministry (MoD) said Wednesday. According to the MoD, the Afghan commando forces conducted an operation in the Karocha village in the Adraskan district of the province on Tuesday night. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban | Tags: Herat, prisoners |
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