Representatives of Russia and Qatar, speaking at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, made no reference to widespread human rights violations or the situation of women in Afghanistan, unlike several other countries.
Taliban courts flogged 40 people in Kabul and Faryab province on various charges, according to statements from the group’s judicial authorities.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court said Monday that at least 36 people were publicly flogged in Khost province in a single day.
The human rights organisation Rawadari says the Taliban have failed to fully criminalise the beating of children under their criminal courts’ code of procedure.
The Taliban Supreme Court said it publicly flogged five people, including one woman, in Ghazni province on charges described as theft, “illicit relations” and “moral corruption”.
The Taliban Supreme Court says more than 1,000 people were sentenced to prison by its military courts over a three-month period this year.
China has opposed a resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative mechanism into human rights violations in Afghanistan.
The UN Human Rights Council on Monday approved the establishment of an independent mechanism to investigate and document human rights violations in Afghanistan.
The US State Department, in its latest annual Trafficking in Persons report, said child soldier recruitment, human trafficking and the practice of bacha bazi persist in Afghanistan, with the Taliban and other armed groups continuing to exploit children.
The Taliban have flogged a man and a woman in northern Afghanistan after convicting them of having extramarital relations, the group’s Supreme Court said.
The Taliban have arrested 16 young men in Kandahar for raising Afghanistan’s republic era black, red and green national flag during a private Independence Day gathering, local sources said.
Hengaw, a human rights organisation, said Monday that Iran has carried out 800 executions in less than eight months, an average of 100 per month, including at least 46 Afghan nationals. No details were released about the identities or charges of those executed.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court said four people, including a woman, were flogged in Kabul’s Chahar Asyab district on charges of adultery and theft.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says local courts in Sar-e Pul and Laghman provinces have sentenced 24 people, including five women, to prison terms and public floggings.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says local courts in Khost and Paktia provinces have publicly flogged three people convicted of what it described as murder and extramarital sexual relations.
The US State Department’s 2024 annual report on Afghanistan has documented extensive human rights abuses by the Taliban, including severe restrictions on women, press freedom, arbitrary detentions, suppression of civil liberties.
Sima Samar, the former chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, has called on women and men to continue resisting the Taliban’s oppression, marking the fourth anniversary of the group’s return to power.
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan women are living shorter and less healthy lives as a result of the group’s restrictive decrees, the United Nations said on Monday.
The Taliban’s morality police have detained a man in Balkh province on charges of “insulting sacred beliefs” and making controversial comments about Islamic history, the group’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says 31 people have been publicly flogged in the past week across six provinces, bringing the total number punished in the past month to 81 men and women nationwide.
Taliban morality police have been raiding homes in parts of the Afghan capital to shut down in-home beauty salons, destroying equipment and threatening female beauticians and their families with arrest, residents told Afghanistan International.
Residents of Panjshir province say the Taliban has intensified restrictions on women’s movement, reportedly preventing those not wearing a burqa from travelling freely and subjecting them and those accompanying them to harassment and violence.