At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of ...

Women are treated in the new penal code as being on the same level as "slaves", with provisions allowing either "slave masters" or husbands to administer discretionary punishment, including beatings, ...

Women seeking justice must present physical evidence of harm before a judge while remaining fully covered, and are required to be accompanied by their husband or a male guardian.

The Taliban has introduced a new penal code in Afghanistan that formalises some of its most hardline policies, prompting ...

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

Nearly five years after reclaiming power, the Taliban has introduced a sweeping 90-page penal code that is drawing intense criticism from rights advocates worldwide. Signed by the group’s supreme ...

The Taliban’s governance remains deeply controversial. Since returning to power in 2021, the group has imposed sweeping ...

The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn't cause broken bones or open wounds. The Rawadari human rights ...

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway ...