Human Rights

Sources: Taliban ban women from traveling without burqa in Panjshir

Taliban morality enforcers have established multiple checkpoints throughout Panjshir to monitor women's clothing, sources said.

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Taliban beat, detain young man in Faryab, sources say

A source said the Taliban official “used his military power under Haqqani’s authority” to assault Azim, striking him some 25.

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Taliban flog 53 people in two weeks

Last week, Taliban sentenced a man in Kapisa province to 39 lashes and a year and a half in prison.

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Bennett says Taliban ‘will not remain in power forever,’ urges global response to abuses

“There is no need to accept that the Taliban have come to stay,” Bennett said.

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Taliban warn Kandahar shopkeepers not to sell to unveiled women: Sources

Shopkeepers were instructed either to refuse service to women entirely or to sell only to those wearing what the Taliban.

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Sources: Taliban dictate sermon topics in mosques

Sources said imams are regularly told to promote the Taliban’s law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

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Taliban flog 7 in Kabul on drug and alcohol charges

The statement said that each of the individuals received between 10 and 39 lashes.

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Taliban flog man in Kapisa for alleged ‘propaganda’ against their rule

The man was whipped 39 times in Hese Awal district and sentenced to one year and six months in prison.

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SIGAR: Taliban turn courts into tools of repression

The report concluded that Afghan women have been “systematically deprived of their human rights under an institutionalized system of discrimination.

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Taliban carry out more than 70 public floggings in a month

The largest number of cases were reported in Kabul and Sar-i-Pul, with 19 each, followed by Badakhshan, Parwan, Jawzjan and.

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