VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...
Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women. It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voices, ...
And while precise details of the Taliban’s ruling are unclear, Afghan human rights activists have warned it could mean women are effectively banned from holding conversations with one another.
Laws included the ban on women reading or singing in public. In 2022, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls ...
Korashi was arrested in May in Elk Grove, California. She had been living among fellow Afghan refugees. It is unclear when she first arrived in the United States. She fled Afghanistan and started ...
“If these nations had taken their responsibilities seriously, they wouldn’t have left the Afghan people at the mercy of a terrorist regime. “Women, in particular, are now being ...
The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women. It marks another addition to a mounting pile of laws ...
14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, File) ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It’s ...
A midwife in Herat told Amu TV that Taliban officials forbid female healthcare workers, the last of the Afghan women allowed to work outside their homes, from speaking, especially with male relatives.
According to Amu TV, a Virginia-based Afghan news channel, the order was delivered by Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, who stated that ...
Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, 53, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for accepting "bribe payments from Afghan nationals in exchange for drafting, submitting, and verifying ...