{"id":13700,"date":"2025-10-08T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13700"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:26:30","slug":"three-day-session-to-investigate-taliban-crimes-against-women-begins-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/three-day-session-to-investigate-taliban-crimes-against-women-begins-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-day session to investigate Taliban crimes against women begins in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three-day session to investigate Taliban crimes against women begins in Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The three-day session of the \u201cPeople\u2019s Court for Afghan Women\u201d began this morning (Wednesday, October 8, 2025) in Madrid, Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shahrzad Akbar opened the program with a brief report from the People\u2019s Court and a vote of thanks to the participants. The trial is scheduled to continue until Friday, with an official statement to be issued at the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The goal of the session is to document the systematic oppression of women in Afghanistan and to try to hold the Taliban accountable for these crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The prosecutors include Azada Raz Mohammad, legal advisor to the End Gender Apartheid Campaign, Mohib Mudassar, human rights defender, and Banafsha Yaqoobi, civil society activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

International experts include Shadi Sadr from Iran, Emily Full and Shazia Chaudhry from the United Kingdom, and Malek Setiz from Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judges of the court are drawn from Spain, Afghanistan, Egypt, Italy, South Africa and India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers say the meeting is being held in collaboration with four Afghan civil society organizations and with the support of human rights groups and academia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has supported the court, calling it \u201can important step towards holding the Taliban accountable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A preliminary statement is expected to be issued at the end of the sessions, reflecting the testimonies and documents presented on the situation of Afghan women.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three-day session to investigate Taliban crimes against women begins in Spain. The three-day session of the \u201cPeople\u2019s Court for Afghan Women\u201d began this morning (Wednesday, October 8, 2025) in Madrid, Spain. Shahrzad Akbar opened the program with a brief report from the People\u2019s Court and a vote of thanks to the participants. The trial is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700","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=13700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13703,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions\/13703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}