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A crackdown by Afghan authorities on a protest against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations reportedly injured at least three people Tuesday. Subscribe to ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Rare protest against Taliban's hijab crackdown ends in bloodshed, two shot dead at close range
Protesters chanting for "education, work and freedom" took to the streets in Herat after reports of hijab-related arrests. Witnesses claim Taliban forces responded with gunfire and detentions.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost
Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Afghan Taliban clamp down on women, smartphones, protests
The news from Afghanistan — or at least the news that can be gleamed and pieced together through the screen of censorship imposed by the Taliban regime — is alarming. In early June, Taliban ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Afghans Hold Rare Public Protests Against Taliban Rules
The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about the arrests of dozens of women, and reported that two people were killed in protests organized to support them. By Yaqoob Akbary and Zane Irwin ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Women detained in Afghanistan's Herat in clothing crackdown, eyewitnesses say
Residents in the western Afghan city of Herat told the AFP news agency they had witnessed several women detained by the Taliban government's morality police, in a crackdown over clothing which has ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Events: Taliban Forces Fire On Afghan Women Protesting New Restrictions
Afghanistan’s Taliban government used live fire to disperse a protest in the western city of Herat over new restrictions on women, eyewitnesses told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. One eyewitness said that at ...