Stores in Herat province have begun beheading mannequins after the Taliban government’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recommended that vendors implement the measure because they consider them to be figures against Islamic law.
The Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice called on Sunday, November 21, for Afghan television stations to stop broadcasting series featuring women. This in the framework of new “religious directives”.
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in late August, persecution of the country’s LGBT+ community has intensified, forcing many to live in hiding, fearing for their lives.
Parwana’s father, Abdul, who has been living in a refugee camp with his family for four years, had to sell his 9-year-old daughter in order to eat.
The Taliban hanged a man’s corpse in the western Afghan city of Herat, a witness said Saturday. Shocking images show a large crowd gathered in Herat’s main square looking at a lifeless body, his white clothes covered in blood, hanging from a crane.
The Taliban’s effective ban on women’s work has sparked outrage over the dramatic loss of rights following the exclusion of millions of female teachers and girls from secondary education.
Girls were unable to return to secondary schools in Afghanistan today after the country’s new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and teachers to return to the classroom.
A family in Afghanistan has made the heartbreaking decision to sell their daughter to keep her from starving to death.
The Taliban on Tuesday appointed an interim government dominated by its own ethnic Pashtun leaders, setting aside its own pledges to form an inclusive administration with members of the country’s various groups.
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days.
An Afghan YouTuber has been killed in an airport bombing amid the collapse of the government, just days after saying goodbye to her viewers in what was the last video she recorded, CNN reports .
During a lengthy interview with 9News Australia, Suhail Shaheen claimed that the 41 Australian soldiers who died during the war in Afghanistan had “died in vain,” stating that “they died in our country, occupying our country.”
The soccer player who grew up and fled in search of a better future and the situation she experienced 20 years ago serves to contextualize what is happening in Afghanistan today.
Facebook on Thursday, August 19, unveiled measures to protect vulnerable users in Afghanistan from the Taliban, where the fundamentalist Islamist group seized power on Sunday, August 15.
The woman was beaten to death, according to her daughter: “My mother told them, ‘I am poor, how can I cook for you,’ so the Taliban started beating her.”
The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quelled a rare public show of dissent. Meanwhile, the militant group met with former officials of the ousted Western-backed government.