{"id":12836,"date":"2025-08-07T06:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:20:03","slug":"sexual-abuse-of-children-in-taliban-religious-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/sexual-abuse-of-children-in-taliban-religious-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual abuse of children in Taliban religious institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12830\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nahad-dini-talib.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sexual abuse of children in Taliban religious institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Various sources in the country report a worrying spread of sexual abuse of male children by members of the Taliban group;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A phenomenon that has become common and accepted behavior among the group&#8217;s commanders in many provinces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Field reports from provinces such as Faryab, Kandahar, Kunduz, Khost and Kabul indicate that numerous cases of sexual abuse of children have occurred in religious schools, seminaries and so-called educational centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The victims are mainly boys aged 8 to 14 whose families have remained silent or have left their homes for fear of reprisals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to witnesses, some Taliban members consider having a \u201cbeardless child\u201d a sign of power and status. In some cases, the perpetrators of these acts hold high-ranking positions in the Taliban structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Child rights activists say that these crimes, in the shadow of the lack of a free media, the inaction of the international community and direct threats to families, are quickly becoming a deep social crisis that threatens the future of children and the moral fabric of Afghan society.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual abuse of children in Taliban religious institutions. Various sources in the country report a worrying spread of sexual abuse of male children by members of the Taliban group; A phenomenon that has become common and accepted behavior among the group&#8217;s commanders in many provinces. Field reports from provinces such as Faryab, Kandahar, Kunduz, Khost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}