Responding to the Taliban de facto authorities’ imposition of a total internet shutdown across Afghanistan under the pretext of preventing the “misuse of internet” and spread of “immoral acts,” Smriti […]

In July, filmmaker Sayed Rahim Saidi was released in Afghanistan after 11 months in jail. Sayed, who worked for over two decades with Afghanistan National TV, had been detained along […]

The Taliban de-facto authorities must immediately put an end to the arbitrary and unfair delivery of justice by reinstating a formal constitutional and legal framework and the rule of law […]

Three years into the Taliban rule, the country remains a hotbed of unchecked and unabated human rights abuses – gender persecution, torture, arbitrary detentions, and censorship – all with zero […]

Hamid Farhadi, a journalist working for an independent exile-based newspaper, was arrested by Taliban Ministry of Interior officials on September 3, 2024. He was sentenced to two years in prison […]

Robina Azizi,19, fled Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province in 2021, leaving behind her home, her belongings and her school after the Taliban took control. Conditions rapidly deteriorated; soon after, the Taliban […]

Mahdi Ansari, a 27-year-old journalist with Afghan News Agency, was arrested on October 5, 2024, near his office by Taliban intelligence officers from District 40. On January 1, 2025, a […]

Sayed Rahim Saidi, a 57-year-old filmmaker and managing director of Anar Media, was arrested near his office on July 14, 2024, by members of the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence […]

Responding to the application filed yesterday by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for arrest warrants against the Taliban Supreme Leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the Taliban […]

Education activists Ahmad Fahim Azimi and Seddiqullah Afghan have been released after enduring months of unjust imprisonment. Seddiqullah Afghan regained freedom on April 9, 2024, as part of a prisoner […]

Responding to the announcement by Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands during the UN General Assembly yesterday that they will initiate legal proceedings that could ultimately lead to action at […]

Responding to a new report by the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) in Afghanistan on the sweeping gross violations of human rights by the Taliban’s so-called de-facto Ministry for the Propagation of […]