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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 15h

The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan aims to document and expose the systematic gender persecution under Taliban rule.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 2d

With jobs disappearing, many women and girls have turned to informal work as they are the few livelihoods that have not yet been explicitly banned for them.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 6d

From Monday to Wednesday evening, Afghanistan experienced its first total internet and telephone communication shutdown. The effects were felt immediately throughout Afghanistan.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 8d

On Monday, the Taliban on the order of their leader, shut down internet access across Afghanistan.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 15d

After first excluding women and girls from secondary school and further education, the regime has been building a vast new network of religious schools that encourage and incentivise a new alternative.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 15d

“These online classes were my only source of hope.”
The Taliban had ordered Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet to be shut down. The restrictions follow a directive from the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, to “prevent immorality.”
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 20d

Over the past four years, the Taliban have steadily erased women from Afghanistan’s educational and academic landscape. Now they have banned textbooks authored or compiled by women.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 21d

For the past three years, 15-year-old Noria has continued her studies through educational radio programs. Her father, Haji Chinar Gul, is her greatest supporter.
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The radio classrooms defying the Taliban ban

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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 22d

Given the Taliban’s current approach to educational institutions, the regime appears determined to transform Afghanistan’s universities into religious seminaries of the Taliban’s design.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 24d

Radio stations have become a lifeline for girls’ education, with men—fathers, brothers, teachers, and operators—risking their lives to deliver lessons and homework.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 28d

In the shattered houses of Wadeer village in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake that has killed more than 2,200 people say they are still waiting for the most basic help: food and shelter.

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Afghan quake survivors still waiting for help بازمندگان زلزله کنر هنوز در انتظار کمک‌های ابتدایی

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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Sep 8

What is happening to Afghanistan’s Ismailis is not simply persecution — it is an attempt at erasure. Forced religious conformity, cultural destruction, and targeted violence are reshaping one of Afghanistan’s oldest minority communities.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Sep 5

In the shattered houses of Wadeer village in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake that has killed more than 2,200 people say they are still waiting for the most basic help: food and shelter.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the past month, a wave of arrests — really abductions — has swept across Kabul. Women and girls accused of “improper hijab” have been dragged off the streets, out of markets, and even from restaurants by the Taliban’s morality police.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 27

On the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power, its relationship with neighbouring countries — including China — have moved toward a kind of strategic alliance.
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What does China want from the Taliban? - Zan Times

By Omid Sharafat On the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power, its relationship with neighbouring countries — including China — have moved toward a kind of strategic alliance. In Decem...

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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today’s Afghanistan is different. Fathers no longer have the freedom to give wings to their daughters’ dreams. My father lived our dreams as though they were his own, rejoicing in even our smallest achievements.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 21

On the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power, its relationship with neighbouring countries — including China — have moved toward a kind of strategic alliance.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 19

Four Afghan civil society organisations launched the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan before the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) to address the systematic human rights abuses faced by women and girls since the Taliban’s return to power.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 18

Time has not healed the wounds of being deprived of freedom, education, and a normal life; it has only turned them into festering sores that burn through my whole being. The wounds I have endured as an Afghan girl and student will never truly heal.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Every day I counted, hoping for justice. Yet many of my visits ended in tears. By the 28th day, they finally told me, “Girl, go live your life and pretend you never had a camera.”
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Taliban fighters struck my hand with an electric baton, hit my back with a rifle, beat my head, and handcuffed me. A black sack was thrown over my head.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · Aug 8

Celebrating three years of fearless reporting from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Hear from our team at Zan Times about the journalism we do — holding the Taliban to account.
As we mark our third anniversary, stand with us. Share our story.
Show the Taliban: we are not alone.
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Celebrating three years of fearless reporting from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

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