Shiite cleric’s office in Kabul closed; Behsudi: Taliban decision was without investigation. Continuing the Taliban’s pressure on critical religious figures, prominent Shiite cleric Waizzada Behsudi announced that his representative office in western Kabul had been closed by the group. Behsudi said in a statement on Wednesday that his office had been sealed by the Taliban’s
Female journalists silenced at Taliban Foreign Ministry press conference. Continuing to impose restrictions on women’s presence in the media, the Taliban silenced female journalists at a press conference in Kabul. The press conference was held by the Taliban Foreign Ministry at the group’s media center on Wednesday, July 23, and was broadcast live on national
Ahmadi: The Taliban’s arrest of women is the worst kind of religious and human atrocity. Mohammad Amin Ahmadi, an Islamic scholar, religious researcher, and former member of the negotiating team with the Taliban, has strongly condemned the arrest of women and girls by the group’s Amr-e-Ma’ruf agents, calling it “the worst kind of religious and
Taliban search youth phones in Dasht-e-Barchi. Continuing restrictive measures and violating citizens’ privacy, Taliban forces searched the mobile phones of a number of youths in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul on Tuesday, July 21. Local sources confirm that these searches were conducted in the West Shop area and that the Taliban searched all sections of
Taliban cadres violently disrupted graduation celebrations at Faryab University. Local sources in Faryab province confirm that officers of the Taliban’s Department of Encouraging Righteousness and Preventing Evil have arrested a number of Faryab University students during their graduation ceremony. According to information received by social media, these students, who graduated from the Faculty of Economics
Continued pressure on women; Taliban arrest women in Kabul At least 100 women have been arrested by Taliban forces in Kabul, local sources said in a wave of repression of women in Afghanistan. The arrests were made on Wednesday, September 25, in the Shahr-e-Naw area and its surroundings. According to sources, women were collected from
Tehran’s pressure, Kabul’s inability; 120,000 Afghan refugees forced to return in the shadow of Taliban’s anti-immigrant policies and lack of planning. Continuing the wave of systematic expulsions of Afghan refugees from Iran, local Taliban officials in Nimroz have announced that over the past 20 days, more than 122,000 Afghan refugees have been expelled or forced
Abdul Salam Maftoon, a Badakhshan singer, was released after three days of detention. Local sources in Badakhshan province confirmed that Abdul Salam Maftoon, a local singer of the province, was arrested by Taliban militants in Ashkasham district three days ago. According to sources, the artist was released on Monday, September 16, after mediation by local
Education under the shadow of coercion; Increase in girls in religious schools in Nangarhar With schools closed to girls, many families in Nangarhar have turned to religious education as the only remaining option. Local sources say that girls are now studying up to the 12th grade in dozens of home-based religious schools built in alleys
The Slow Death of Freedom of Expression in Afghanistan; Taliban Force Media into Systematic Silence In the latest restrictive step, the Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture has asked media outlets to obtain official permits and share the content with the ministry before hosting any political or analytical program. This measure has dealt a heavy
