“I knelt before the Talib and asked him to kill me”: recollections of horrific abuse in Taliban detention
The 20-year-old was arrested by Taliban forces on Monday, January 8 from Pul-e-Khoshk of west Kabul and taken to the...
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Shop sales plummet as women avoid leaving home for fear of Taliban imprisonment
The mass arrests of women under the Taliban’s pretext of an "improper hijab” is not the only fear that Parisa...
‘I thought I was going to die’: Afghan 20-year-old detained and beaten for having photos of women’s rights protests on mobile phone
Malala believes she was targeted by the Taliban for merely not wearing a burqa. Then she was detained for photos...
Threat, humiliation, rape, and home imprisonment: the bitter path to France for a trans woman from Afghanistan
Exiled from her own home, imprisoned, assaulted, and now a refugee in France, Sadaf has suffered for her identity as...
The Jawzjan neighborhood where no girl has ever attended school
The 12-year-old lives in the village of Saltaq Khord Turkmania, an area in Jawzjan province’s Khwaja Du Koh district, where...
From policing in Afghanistan to fleeing to Iran: a woman’s journey
She was the sole breadwinner raising her young family, but Gul-e-Badam considered herself lucky – with her government salary and...
Women seeking to report street crime are turned away by Taliban police for not making complaint through male chaperone
Rahima’s been robbed twice in four months in Balkh’s capital Mazar-e-Sharif. Adding to her distress is police refused to hear...
Two women’s account of bitter experience in the Taliban prison
Here are Zarifa and Hakima’s first-person accounts of their arrests, detention, and treatment. Their experience of abuse, coercion and torture...
New ‘Door to Door’ initiative supports Afghan girls to learn tougher subjects in secret schools
Before becoming a student in a secret school in western Herat province, Afsana passed her days stuck at home. She’s...
Taliban arrest dozens of women and girls for “improper” clothing in Kabul
The Taliban is cracking down on female clothing in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul in a new wave of suppression targeting girls...
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