The Taliban have issued a new directive that formally prohibits Afghan media from criticising the regime’s policies, further tightening restrictions on freedom of expression and press activity in the country.
Iran has executed an Afghan national convicted of murder, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organisation said Monday.
Iran has executed three Afghan nationals at Mashhad Central Prison on drug-trafficking charges, the Kurdish human-rights group Hengaw said Friday.
Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has acknowledged that some members of the group may have taken personal revenge against former Afghan government officials, despite an official policy of general amnesty.
Taliban intelligence officers have subjected detainees to physical, sexual and psychological torture, sometimes for “entertainment,” according to a new report by the Afghan human rights Rawadari.
Afghan women’s rights activists on Tuesday submitted a shadow report to a United Nations committee, documenting what they called systematic discrimination and repression of women and girls under Taliban rule.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a man and a woman were publicly flogged in Kabul on Monday after being convicted of having sexual relations outside of marriage.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a man was publicly flogged in Sar-e Pol province after being convicted of trespassing and causing injury.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a man and a woman were flogged in Badakhshan province on charges of “running away from home” and “assisting escape.”
Afghanistan now has the second-largest gender gap in the world, with eight in ten women denied access to education and employment, according to the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index.
Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said that women and girls in Afghanistan have effectively been erased from public life, as he raised alarm over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan migrant woman whose mutilated body was discovered earlier this month in Varamin, south of Tehran.
The Taliban have detained dozens of people in Daikundi province including clerics and local residents for holding Eid al-Adha prayers on Friday, in defiance of the group’s officially designated date.
The Iran Human Rights Organisation, based in Norway, has reported the execution of seven prisoners including two Afghan nationals at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
A number of Iranian civil society organisations advocating for children’s rights have issued a joint statement calling for an immediate halt to the government’s crackdown on Afghan migrants.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that seven people were publicly flogged across four Afghan provinces, each receiving approximately 60 lashes in total.
A security guard working at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) office in Jalalabad has been killed, reportedly after being severely tortured, informed sources told Afghanistan International on Monday.
Taliban forces have detained 24 residents of Panjshir province, some of whom were recently deported from Iran, for reasons that remain unclear, local sources said on Monday.
Taliban authorities have publicly flogged 11 people, including a woman, in separate incidents across Kabul, Samangan and Khost provinces, the group’s Supreme Court announced on Sunday.
The Taliban have publicly flogged five individuals in separate incidents in Kabul and Kunduz provinces, according to a statement issued by the group’s Supreme Court on Thursday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists and fourteen other organisations have urged Pakistan to immediately halt deportation of Afghan journalists and other vulnerable Afghan migrants.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that seven individuals were publicly flogged in Ghazni and Sar-e Pol provinces on charges of theft, gambling, and illicit relationships.