Rukhshana: At least nine civilians were killed and 15 wounded in Wednesday’s back-to-back explosions which targeted passenger vehicles in Mazar-e-Sharif city in northern Afghanistan, confirmed reports said. All victims were members of ethnic Hazara and religious Shia community, including Maryam Madadi, a former female journalist. Madadi worked at Rabia Balkhi radio station in Balkh, according to Mobina Saiee, the radio station’s former manager.
Thousands of Afghans continue to have to wait for an appointment to apply for a German visa to join their families, who have already left the country. The security situation as well as human rights are increasingly perceived to be at danger in the country following the August 2021 government takeover by the Taliban.
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female Afghan law student reports on the growing number and severity o.
Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. The joy was shockingly brief. In the middle of a lesson, just hours after the school reopened, she learned the hardline Islamists had revoked permission for girls to study. "Suddenly we were told to leave until another