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Armed rape of women in Taliban guesthouses in Laghman; is any woman safe?<\/strong><\/p>\n Local sources in Laghman province report that an individual associated with the Taliban was detained on charges of raping a defenseless woman in one of the group’s guesthouses but was released in less than 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to these sources, Gholamuddin Kelmani, a close guard of Qari Zahed Fateh, the former Taliban district governor of Alingar, was detained by local people on Saturday, February 1, 2025, in one of his commander’s guesthouses;<\/strong><\/p>\n An event that seriously challenges the Taliban’s claims about “security and Sharia.”<\/strong><\/p>\n According to witnesses, the woman was taken to the guesthouse at gunpoint and subjected to violence. Local elders detained the accused after learning of the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, sources emphasize that with the direct intervention of Maulavi Anizhr Gul, the deputy Taliban governor of Laghman, this individual was released without going through a judicial process. The Taliban have so far provided no official explanation in this regard.<\/strong><\/p>\n More concerning is that the fate of the female victim remains completely unknown; there is no information about her whereabouts, physical and psychological condition, or subsequent Taliban action towards her.<\/strong><\/p>\n Residents of Laghman say the immunity of influential Taliban individuals has rendered justice meaningless, and the disregard for women’s basic rights has led to systematic violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n Women’s rights activists warn that under such conditions, no woman in any part of Afghanistan feels safe, and Taliban guesthouses have turned into sites of rape and violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Armed rape of women in Taliban guesthouses in Laghman; is any woman safe? Local sources in Laghman province report that an individual associated with the Taliban was detained on charges of raping a defenseless woman in one of the group’s guesthouses but was released in less than 24 hours. According to these sources, Gholamuddin Kelmani, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","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=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15407,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions\/15407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}