Taliban releases women’s rights activist Zhulia Parsi in poor mental and physical health
Women’s rights activist Zhulia Parsi and her son have been released from Taliban custody after nearly three months, sources close...
Burdensome dowries in Nuristan prompt calls for change and price caps
Critics of the tradition of exchanging goods to secure a wife in the eastern Afghanistan province of Nuristan say the...
Hundreds sign statement demanding Taliban release political prisoners and end brutal practices of suppression
Hundreds of Afghan citizens and civil society groups are demanding the Taliban release political prisoners who have not committed crimes.
The ongoing torture after Taliban detention of women who called for their rights
These are the stories of three women who have all been detained by Taliban forces and subjected to torture. It...
Nangarhar resident dies of AIDS as nearly 300 people in the province live with the disease
Health officials in eastern Nangarhar province say that 297 people have been registered in the province as having AIDS, including...
Taliban sentence Daikundi radio chief to year in prison for reports critical of its administration
A Taliban court has sentenced a Daikundi radio chief to a year in prison for broadcasting content that was critical...
Taliban authorities remain silent on arrest of Kandahari journalist who is uncontactable
Taliban forces have detained a local television journalist Abdul Rahim Mohammadi in Kandahar province, the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AfJC) said.
Latest shooting of Shia-Hazaras in Herat stokes anger at Taliban with calls for the authorities to protect the ethnic group
Residents of Jibril reported that a white Toyota Fielder without number plates drove high-speed through the Kora-e-Milli area and opened...
Fears that Taliban is not properly investigating deaths of girls and women after violent death of Husna Sadat reported as suicide
Afghan cinematographer and former actor Husna Sadat has died in circumstances that people close to her say warrants investigation, but...
Afghan women launch YouTube channels in defiance of Taliban ban on girls’ education
It was one day after Afghanistan’s new rulers closed girls’ high schools when Basira Mohammadi decided she would teach lessons...
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