Afghan journalists fear new restrictions after the Taliban-led government banned the media from showing images of living things in compliance with "morality laws." Several TV channels have been turned into radio stations and some stations have banned women’s voices.
Jawed Mohmand, an Afghan academic and political commentator, is the latest figure to be detained by the Taliban as part of its crackdown on dissent.
Iranian border guards fired on and killed Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan, according to local reports and rights groups.
The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only unaccompanied singing. In an interview with RFE/RL, an exiled Afghan musician condemned the move.
Germany deported several dozen Afghans in August -- all of them convicted criminals -- for the first time since the Taliban takeover in 2021. But the move has fueled panic among Germany's large Afghan community, many of whom fear they could be next.
Richard Bennett, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has arrived in Qatar to meet with "diverse groups" of Afghan men and women, along with government representatives, on the situation in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has formally codified into law a long set of rules governing morality. The new law, which consists of 35 articles, imposes sweeping restrictions on women's movement and behavior and stipulates that men must attend prayers and grow beards.
Afghanistan is one of the largest recipients of humanitarian aid from the European Union, EU officials said on August 27, one day after saying it was appalled by a new decree issued by the Taliban-led government further restricting the lives of women.
At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15.
The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of its return to power in Afghanistan with a military parade on August 14 amid what international aid groups say is one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises.
The Taliban has created "the world's most serious women's rights crisis" since returning to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
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