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‘I expect them to be beaten… at 14, they will be pregnant’: Afghan parents sell off their daughters, two and five, for marriage because they ‘had no choice’

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A veiled woman carries her child as they listen a speaker before a pro-Taliban rally at the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021

An Afghan couple have tried to justify marrying off their daughters, two and five, for money by claiming they had ‘no choice’.  Gul Bobo, who lives in the rural village of Tayz Nāwah in northwest Afghanistan, said that increasingly frequent droughts have made her and her husband’s lives far harder.  These droughts have affected her … Read more

Red Cross deletes sympathetic film about Afghan migrant now accused of killing British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase

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Sharif Ahmadzai was arrested over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Greece

The Red Cross has deleted a film tracking the journey of an Afghan migrant who is now accused of killing a British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase in Greece.  Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was arrested on Monday over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Athens.  Ahmadzai, a professional boxer who arrived … Read more

Taliban morality police round up females – despite them wearing hijabs – as the group ramps up ‘psychological abuse’ on Afghan women

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The Taliban's morality police have rounded up at least nine females over the past two days in Afghanistan. Pictured: An Afghan woman wearing a burqa walks along a market in Andkhoy, Faryab Province, Northern Afghanistan

The Taliban‘s morality police have rounded up at least nine females over the past two days in Afghanistan in a fresh move to enforce strict Sharia law dress codes.  The women were detained in the city of Herat, despite them all wearing hijabs, according to Amu TV – a US-based Afghan broadcaster.  The arrests come … Read more