カテゴリー: Taliban
Peter Reynolds, who runs a business in Afghanistan, was held along with his wife last month and needs heart pills, says his daughterThe life of a 79-year-old British man imprisoned along with his wife by the Taliban is in serious danger, his family hav…
After an evaluation a Taliban spokesperson said Peter and Barbie Reynolds would be released as soon as possibleA British couple were arrested in Afghanistan due to a “misunderstanding” that they had fake Afghan passports, the Taliban said on Tuesday.Pe…
Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds says government must do ‘everything in their power’ to secure their releaseThe family of a British couple arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan have called on the government to do “everything in their power” to se…
Peter and Barbie Reynolds were detained in Bamiyan provice for ‘teaching mothers parenting with children’The Taliban have arrested a British couple in their 70s for “teaching mothers parenting with children”.Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75…
As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the mediaWhen the Taliban began marching towards cities across Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Alia*, a…
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable contentGoogle has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitat…
Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girlsA senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan a…
The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that he had requested arrest warrants for two top Taliban officials for the repression of women. He accused the group’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and the country’s s…
Reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity are being committed against women and girls in Afghanistan, application saysThe international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afg…
Ryan Corbett and William McKenty swapped for Khan Mohammed, who was held in California for drug traffickingA prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life …
Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employerIt was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kab…
Speaking at an inaugural conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world, Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan as ‘gender apartheid’. The conference in Islamabad brought together local and international advo…
Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…
Culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban’s treatment of womenUK politics live – latest updatesEngland should be allowed to play next month’s cricket match against Afghanistan, the culture and sport …
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcareThe Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending nursing and midwife courses has been condemned as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human ri…