HRW: Three Afghan women detained for protesting Taliban abuses described torture and other severe mistreatment in custody, Human Rights Watch said today. The women said they were wrongfully detained with their families, including small children. They experienced threats, beatings, dangerous conditions of confinement, denial of due process, abusive conditions of release, and other abuses. The
8am: The Taliban fighters have attacked the two villages of Behsud district in Maidan Wardak province, injuring eight civilians and putting on fire three residential homes, local sources said. The Taliban accused the residents of these villages of having weapons and brutally tortured them, as well as they also launched house searches operation and dug
8am: The Taliban rebels have arrested four civilians in Badakhshan’s Shakey district on the charges of collaborating with the National Resistance Front (NRF) forces, sources said. Sources said Tuesday that these people were first called to Shahr Sabz village in the center of Shakey district and then they were detained and tortured by the Taliban.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique October 4, 2022 A deadly suicide bombing that killed dozens of Afghan girls and women last week has triggered some of the largest and most sustained protests against Taliban rule since the militant group seized power last year. At least 52 people, mostly female students, were killed on September 30
8am: Local sources in Takhar report two attacks by the Resistance Front forces on Taliban’s positions in this province. According to local sources, in the first attack carried out on Wednesday night, September 28, in Mashabah Qishlaq village of Dasht-e-Qala district of Takhar, as a result of which, Qari Khelan, one of the local Taliban
8am: Local sources in Takhar report that the Taliban in this province collect tithes from farmers’ crops several times. On Thursday, September 22, a source said, quoting the farmers of some districts in this province, that the Taliban has not defined any mechanism for tithes collection, but there are local Taliban commanders who collect tithes
8am: Local sources in Maidan Wardak report that the Taliban rebels, during house to house to search operations in Kajab village in Markaz Behsood district have detained and tortured a number of residents. On Wednesday, September 21, the sources told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban started raiding the houses in this area two nights ago
8am: In a house-to-house search operation in Dara Abdullah Khel, Panjshir on Friday, the Taliban rebels seriously tortured Mawlawi Abdul Sami Muslih, the imam of Mian Deh village along with one of the youths of this area, sources said. This incident occurred when the detention of boys under age and elders was criticized by Mawlawi
8am: Amnesty International in its latest probe said that on June 26, the Taliban killed at least 6 civilians affiliated with the Hazara community in Ghor province. In the continuation of this report, it is stated that the Taliban have arrested and executed four men in a night operation following the search for a former
8am: Taliban members collect ransom from the local residents in Ghazni province on the pretext of having illegal weapons and force them to pay money for not harassing them. On Monday, 14 September, a source told Hasht-e-Subh that the Taliban with the cooperation of their community colleagues in Loman of Jaghuri district are torturing and