Taliban wollen Schaufensterpuppen köpfen

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Ein Vertreter des Ministeriums zur Erhaltung der Tugend bezeichnet die Puppen als Götzenbilder, die verschwinden müssten. Kritik kommt aus der Handelskammer in Herat.

In Afghanistan haben die regierenden islamistischen Taliban abermals strenge Vorschriften verhängt und nun Modegeschäfte im Westen des Landes aufgefordert, Schaufensterpuppen zu köpfen. Diese seien Götzenbilder und somit unislamisch, sagte Asisul Rahman, ein Provinzvertreter des neu geschaffenen Ministeriums zur Erhaltung der Tugend, der Deutschen Presse-Agentur am Dienstag. „Sie müssen beseitigt werden“, erklärte Rahman. Zunächst solle es jedoch genügen, dass die Schaufensterpuppen enthauptet werden. » | Quelle: dpa | Dienstag, 4. Januar 2022

Inside the New Afghanistan: France 24's Exclusive Look at Life under the Taliban | The Debate

Dec 16, 2021 • What is it really like inside the new Afghanistan? Four months after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, France 24 went to the capital and beyond to speak with citizens from all walks of life. What they heard was a mix, relief that the guns have gone quiet and worry over the prospect of a bleak winter. What with more than half the population facing "acute" food shortages, international isolation, and new rulers who have yet to let women return to school and to work and yet to prove they can run a country.

Machtwechsel in Afghanistan: Taliban wollen Musik und Frauen ohne Hijabs aus Autos verbannen

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: In Afghanistan haben die Taliban im August 2021 die Macht übernommen. Viele Staaten haben ihre Landsleute und lokalen Mitarbeiter unter teilweise dramatischen Umständen evakuiert. Die Lage im Land ist unübersichtlich.

Wer in Afghanistan Auto fährt, soll dazu weder Musik hören noch eine Frau ohne Hijab als Passagieren mitnehmen. Dies heisst es in einem Schreiben des Ministeriums zur Erhaltung der Tugend und Unterdrückung des Lasters, das an Autofahrer verteilt wurde. Der Sprecher des Ministeriums, Mohammed Sadik Asif, bestätigte am Sonntag (26. 12.) die Direktive. Wie genau der Hijab aussehen soll, geht aus der Anordnung nicht hervor. Die regierenden Taliban verstehen darunter in der Regel nicht die Bedeckung von Haaren und Hals, sondern einen Umhang von Kopf bis Fuss. Die neusten Entwicklungen: » | NZZ-Redaktion | Sonntag, 26. Dezember 2021

À Kaboul, vivre caché dans la terreur de l’ordre taliban

Un membre des forces de sécurité des talibans patrouille, en septembre, dans une rue de Kaboul. STRINGER/REUTERS
LE FIGARO : RÉCIT - Sidérés par la brutalité du pouvoir, les Kabouliotes, qui vivaient à l’occidentale, ne sortent plus de peur de mourir.

Envoyée spéciale à Kaboul.
La famille entière s’est réunie sur un vieux canapé: le père, la mère, et les quatre enfants: trois jeunes filles et un petit garçon de 10 ans. Aucun n’a souhaité que son nom soit révélé.

«Vous voir, c’est un peu comme sortir de chez nous», sourit l’aînée des trois filles. Voilà trois mois qu’aucun d’entre eux n’a fait un pas dehors: trop dangereux. «Si on sort, on meurt», prévient le père. Ses enfants sourient d’un air las: au fil des semaines, la mise en garde est devenue une ritournelle qu’on répète comme une plaisanterie. «On sort, on meurt», ânonne le benjamin, que sa mère prend tendrement dans ses bras.

«S’ils nous trouvent, ils me tueront»

La discussion n’a rien de naturel: elle dépend de deux faibles connexions internet. Nous ne sommes qu’à quelques rues les uns des autres, mais il faut discuter à distance, grâce à un logiciel de visioconférence. «Vous pourriez être suivie… On ne sait pas de quoi les talibans sont capables», justifie le père, visiblement gêné. » | Par Margaux Benn | Publié : vendredi 19 novembre 2021 ; mis à jour : samedi 20 novembre 2021

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“Hell on Earth”: Millions of Afghans Face Starvation as US & West Freeze Billions in Gov’t Funds

Nov 16, 2021 • Humanitarian and economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, where the U.N. estimates that more than half of the population suffers from acute hunger. The country has fallen into an economic crisis after the U.S. and other Western countries cut off direct financial assistance to the government following the Taliban takeover in August. Taliban leaders are also unable to access billions of dollars in Afghan national reserves that are held in banks overseas. “Forty million civilians were left behind when the NATO countries went for the door in August,” says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who recently visited Afghanistan and with refugees in Iran, where as many as 5,000 Afghans are fleeing everyday. “They told me very clearly, ‘We believe we will starve and freeze to death this harsh winter unless there is an enormous aid operation coming through.’”

Les talibans interdisent l'utilisation de devises étrangères aux Afghans

LE FIGARO : Le gouvernement taliban a annoncé mardi qu'il serait désormais interdit d'utiliser des devises étrangères dans le pays, mettant encore plus à risque une économie déjà en lambeaux. «La situation économique et l'intérêt national du pays nécessitent que tous les Afghans se servent de l'afghani comme monnaie pour toutes leurs transactions», a indiqué le porte-parole taliban Zabihullah Mujahid dans un communiqué. «L'Emirat islamique ordonne à tous ses citoyens, commerçants, marchands, hommes d'affaires (...) de strictement s'abstenir d'utiliser des devises étrangères», insiste le responsable. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 2 novembre 2021

Afghanistan: Kabul nach der Machtübernahme der Taliban | DW Reporter

Oct 31, 2021 • Nachdem die Taliban in Afghanistan die Macht übernommen haben, fürchten viele Menschen in Kabul um ihren freiheitlichen Lebensstil. Journalistin Maryam kann nicht mehr so berichten, wie sie möchte, Musiker Gholam nicht mehr öffentlich auftreten. Hinzu kommen gravierende wirtschaftliche Probleme: Gholam zum Beispiel muss nach und nach seine Einrichtung, sogar seinen Kühlschrank verkaufen, um seine Familie irgendwie ernähren zu können. Gleichzeitig hat sich die vage Hoffnung, dass mit den Taliban zumindest mehr Ruhe und Sicherheit in die von Anschlägen erschütterte Stadt einkehren könnte, nicht erfüllt: Nun treiben Milizen des Islamischen Staats ihr Unwesen. Gerade die junge, gut ausgebildete Elite der Stadt ist verzweifelt. Eine Reportage von Nick Connolly.

First Group of LGBT+ Afghans Fleeing Taliban Arrive in the UK

THE GUARDIAN: Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be ‘the first of many’ in coming months

Activists around the world have been campaigning to raise awareness of LGBT Afghans and women’s dire situation under the Taliban's rule. Photograph: Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
A group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban’s return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgender Afghans, who feared persecution and even death under the Islamists’ rule.

The evacuation of the 29 Afghans is “hoped to be the first of many” in the coming months, Britain’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, hours after a Taliban spokesman said LGBT+ rights would not be respected.

Thousands of Afghans including LGBT+ people, women and officials linked to the previous administration rushed to flee the country after the Taliban’s swift return to power on 15 August, but many were unable to board foreign evacuation flights.

“We played a key role getting these people out and will continue to do all we can to help at-risk Afghans leave the country,” British foreign secretary Liz Truss said in a statement, adding Britain would continue to defend “the right of all people to be themselves and love who they want”.

Among the group are students and activists who had repeatedly stood up for equality for the LGBT community in Afghanistan, the Foreign, Common and Development Office (FCDO) said. » | Agencies | Saturday, October 30, 2021

Machtwechsel in Afghanistan: Grossbritannien nimmt LGBTQ-Personen auf, US-Aussenministerium und Pentagon halten angeblich Informationen zurück: In Afghanistan haben die Taliban die Macht übernommen. Viele Staaten haben ihre Landsleute und lokalen Mitarbeiter unter teilweise dramatischen Umständen evakuiert. Die Lage im Land ist unübersichtlich. »

Gay Afghan Burned by Taliban Says International LGBT+ Community Has ‘Forgot[ten] about Us’

Sohil was burned by a member of the Taliban. (Provided)
PINK NEWS: A gay man from Afghanistan who was burned by a Taliban member has said he is “shocked” by the lack of support and solidarity shown by the international LGBT+ community.

Sohil – whose surname has been withheld to protect his identity – is a young gay Afghan whose life was thrown into disarray when the Taliban seized power in August.

Afghanistan was never accepting of homosexuality, but he was in contact with a small network of other gay people. Now, they’re all “living in the shadows” – hiding themselves to evade capture and torture by the extremist group.

“Imagine you have all the great hopes for your life, you have everything, and then one day you wake up and everything is gone,” he tells PinkNews. “I lost my university, I lost my life, I lost my community. Even the boys I was in contact with, they are all living in the shadows. They are all hiding themselves.”

His daily life is very different to what it was before the Taliban took over. Sohil says he was just a “normal person” before extremists weaponised his sexuality. He was a medical student who had ambitions to get out of Afghanistan and build a life for himself. Now, he’s been forced to flee his home – he told his family his history of upporting human rights could make him a Taliban target. » | Patrick Kelleher | Friday, October 22, 2021

Frankreich: Zuflucht im Club der Dissidenten | Fokus Europa

Oct 9, 2021 • Der Journalist Rateb Noori ist mit seiner Frau von wenigen Wochen aus Afghanistan nach Paris geflogen. Er ist zwar in Sicherheit, fühlt sich aber entwurzelt und muss sich an eine fremde Umgebung, eine andere Kultur anpassen. Doch es gibt in Paris einen Ort, wo man gut versteht, womit Noori zu kämpfen hat.

Der "Dissident Club" ist eine Bar, ein Begegnungspunkt, eine Gesprächsforum für Dissidenten und Flüchtlinge aus aller Welt. Gegründet von Taha Siddiqui, einem pakistanischen Journalisten im Exil. Sein Ziel ist, einen Ort zu schaffen, wo Betroffene sich austauschen können über ihr Schicksal, wo ihnen das Gefühl gegeben wird, dass man ihnen zuhört.

Taliban Threaten Women Who Defy Working Bans | DW News

Oct 3, 2021 • When the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, women were shut out of education and could only leave their homes in the company of a male relative – this time around, 40 million Afghans are waiting to see if the new Taliban government will now try to turn back the clock on twenty years of advances for the country’s women. For Afghan women in the media, the signs aren’t looking good – the country’s state broadcaster has already taken all its female journalists off air. DW’s Nick Connolly has been to meet a radio journalist who’s in no mood to give up.

À Kaboul, le retour du ministère du Vice et de la Vertu

Les talibans ont réinstauré à Kaboul le ministère pour la Promotion de la vertu et la Répression du vice en lieu et place de celui des Affaires féminines. HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP
LE FIGARO : REPORTAGE - Cette institution, chargée entre 1996 et 2001 de réprimer les atteintes à la loi islamique, a laissé de sinistres souvenirs à la population.

À Kaboul
Mohammed Youssouf, 32 ans, se présente comme le directeur de cabinet du ministère pour la Promotion de la vertu et la Répression du vice, récemment réinstauré suite à la prise de pouvoir par les talibans le 15 août. L’homme est petit, souriant, porte une longue barbe noire et un turban assorti. Deux hommes armés de kalachnikovs gardent jalousement l’entrée de son bureau, situé dans le dixième district de Kaboul.

Il y a les responsables talibans aux discours policés qui tentent de présenter un visage acceptable au reste du monde. Et puis il y a Mohammed Youssouf. Le jeune homme confie sans détour son ambition de réinstaurer les châtiments corporels et les lapidations pour les Afghans qui oseraient enfreindre les règles de la charia, telles qu’édictées par le mouvement islamiste radical.

«Lorsque quelqu’un a une relation sexuelle hors mariage, il sera condamné au tribunal avec l’aide de quatre témoins, conformément aux réglementations de l’islam. Mais seulement si les témoins ont la même version des faits», explique-t-il sur le ton de l’évidence. «Si l’accusé est marié, le juge décidera d’une lapidation à mort. Si cette personne est célibataire, alors elle sera fouettée. La peine sera exécutée en public afin que cela serve de leçon aux autres.» Lire l'article et regarder la vidéo » | Par Wilson Fache | Publié : lundi 27 septembre 2021 ; mis à jour : mardi 28 septembre 2021

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Afghanistan: Hardship Grows as Economy Nears Collapse | DW News Asia

Sep 28, 2021 – Afghanistan heads closer to economic collapse, with the banks limiting withdrawals, inflation high, and unemployment growing. 03:27 The Taliban has also announced the reinstatement of executions and amputations. 11:01 A roundup of other major developments from the country.

New Taliban Chancellor Bars Women from Kabul University

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The new policy for Afghanistan’s premier university is another major blow to women’s rights under Taliban rule, and to a two-decade effort to build up higher education.

Women stand inside an auditorium at Kabul University’s education center during a demonstration in support of the Taliban government earlier this month in Kabul. | Felipe Dana/Associated Press
Tightening the Taliban’s restrictions on women, the group’s new chancellor for Kabul University announced on Monday that women would be indefinitely banned from the institution either as instructors or students.

“I give you my words as chancellor of Kabul University,” Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat said in a Tweet on Monday. “As long as a real Islamic environment is not provided for all, women will not be allowed to come to universities or work. Islam first.”

The new university policy echoes the Taliban’s first time in power, in the 1990s, when women were only allowed in public if accompanied by a male relative and would be beaten for disobeying, and were kept from school entirely.

Some female staff members, who have worked in relative freedom over the past two decades, pushed back against the new decree, questioning the idea that the Taliban had a monopoly on defining the Islamic faith.

“In this holy place, there was nothing un-Islamic,” one female lecturer said, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, as did several others interviewed by The New York Times. “Presidents, teachers, engineers and even mullahs are trained here and gifted to society,” she said. “Kabul University is the home to the nation of Afghanistan.”

In the days after the Taliban seized power in August, officials went to pains to insist that this time would be better for women, who would be allowed to study, work and even participate in government.

But none of that has happened. Taliban leaders recently named an all-male cabinet. The new government has also prohibited women from returning to the workplace, citing security concerns, though officials have described that as temporary. (The original Taliban movement did that as well in its early days in 1990s, but never followed up.) » | Cora Engelbrecht and Sharif Hassan | Monday, September 27, 2021

John Major on Afghanistan, 'Global Britain', and the Tory Party | FT

Sep 6, 2021 • The former prime minister tells the FT Weekend Festival it was 'wrong to leave Afghanistan', discusses Britain's place in the world, and says nationalism in Boris Johnson's Conservative party needs 'rooting out'. John Major attacks ‘strategically stupid’ decision to leave Afghanistan

«Ich spreche für die Frauen», sagt der Sprecher der Taliban – was sie wollen, fragt er sie nicht

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Die Taliban versprechen den Frauen Afghanistans Rechte. Doch die Erfahrung lässt bezweifeln, dass sie es ernst meinen. Das könnte ein Stolperstein für die internationale Anerkennung sein, die sie sich erhoffen.

Eine Frau sitzt verschleiert auf dem hinteren Sitz eines Motorrads. Seit die Taliban an der Macht sind, fürchten es viele Frauen, ihr Haus zu verlassen. | Bulent Kilic / AFP
Das gefürchtete Ministerium ist zurück. Über dem Eingang des einstigen Ministeriums für Frauen in Kabul prangt eine neue Tafel: Es ist jetzt das Ministerium zur «Verbreitung von Tugend und Verhinderung von Untugend». Hinter dem Namen verbirgt sich ein Ministerium, das im ersten Taliban-Emirat der neunziger Jahre Schrecken verbreitete: Frauen wurden geschlagen, wenn sie keine Burka trugen, Männer bestraft, wenn ihr Bart nicht genug lang war.

Vergangene Woche protestierte eine kleine Gruppe Frauen vor dem Gebäude, die Taliban liessen sie diesmal gewähren. Die Bilder gingen durch die Social Media und um die Welt. Eine Frau sagte der «BBC»: «Wir wollen nicht, dass das Frauenministerium entfernt wird.» Das Entfernen von Frauen bedeute das Entfernen von Menschen.

Es ist vielleicht der grösste Stolperstein des neuen Taliban-Regimes: Die Welt will wissen, welche Rechte die neuen und alten Herrscher Afghanistans den Afghaninnen gewähren. Viele Frauen haben Angst, sie fürchten einen Rückfall in die neunziger Jahre, die Zeit des ersten Emirats. » | Andreas Babst, Kandahar | Freitag, 24. September 2021

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‘Necessary for Security’: Veteran Taliban Enforcer Says Amputations Will Resume

THE GUARDIAN: Nooruddin Turabi, in charge of Afghan prisons, says executions and removal of hands will restart, but possibly not in public

Afghanistan’s Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi. ‘No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam.’ Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP
The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.

According to a senior official – a veteran leader of the hardline Islamist group who was in charge of justice during its previous period in power – executions would not necessarily take place in public as they did before.

The Taliban’s first period ruling Afghanistan during the 1990s, before they were toppled by a US-led invasion in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks, was marked by the grisly excesses of its perfunctory justice system, which included public executions in the football stadium in Kabul.

In an interview with Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi – who was justice minister and head of the so-called ministry of propagation of virtue and prevention of vice during the Taliban’s previous rule – dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, and warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.

Under the new Taliban government, Turabi is in charge of prisons. He is among a number of Taliban leaders, including members of the all-male interim cabinet, who are on a United Nations sanctions list.

“Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi said in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Qur’an.”

“Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” Turabi added, saying it had a deterrent effect. He said the cabinet was studying whether to carry out punishments in public and would “develop a policy”. » | Peter Beaumont | Friday, September 24, 2021

Barbaric laws for people who live in darkness, for people who are shackled to a bygone age. – © Mark

Afghanistan: Executions will return, says senior Taliban official: The Taliban's notorious former head of religious police has said extreme punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in Afghanistan. »

En minijupe dans Kaboul ? La réalité derrière la photo des Afghanes « libérées » - Flashback #5

Sep 19, 2021 • Trois femmes, en jupe, dans Kaboul : l’image est simple et puissante. Abondamment relayée sur les réseaux sociaux, souvent par des militants d’extrême droite, elle aurait aussi convaincu Donald Trump, en 2017, de maintenir les troupes américaines en Afghanistan.

Cette photo, prise en 1972 dans un quartier huppé de Kaboul, illustre-t-elle la « modernité perdue » de l’Afghanistan, avant que les talibans n'arrivent ?

Pour ce nouvel épisode de la série vidéo «#Flashback», nous avons rencontré la photographe Laurence Brun, celle qui était derrière l’objectif.

Cinquième épisode de la série « Flashback » du « Monde », qui remonte le temps pour raconter les histoires extraordinaires qui se cachent derrière les photos qui ont changé le monde.

View from the Left: US Defeat in Afghanistan Signals an Irrational, Declining Empire - Global Capitalism

Sep 19, 2021 • Prof Wolff analyzes the US defeat in Afghanistan and what America’s "defense" policies reveal about US priorities and problems that contribute to the country's decline. "This is a system that has lost even the little bit of rationality it once had. It is driven by specific, particular, what we used to call, special interests who are doing it at the expense of the society as a whole. The defeat in Afghanistan has been a powerful signal around the world that the American empire is in decline." - Richard Wolff

Taliban Ban Girls from Secondary Education in Afghanistan

THE GUARDIAN: Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girls

Girls in a classroom in Herat this week. Girls are now effectively barred from secondary education. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Taliban have effectively banned girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high schools to re-open only for boys.

Girls were not mentioned in Friday’s announcement, which means boys will be back at their desks next week after a one-month hiatus, while their sisters will still be stuck at home.

The Taliban education ministry said secondary school classes for boys in grades seven to 12 would resume on Saturday, the start of the Afghan week. “All male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions,” the statement said. The future of girls and female teachers, stuck at home since the Taliban took control, was not addressed.

The edict makes Afghanistan the only country on earth to bar half its population from getting a secondary education. » | Emma Graham-Harrison in Kandahar | Friday, September 17, 2021