Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail
Source: The Guardian
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail
Exclusive: Activist claims she was threatened with release of the footage in order to silence her, amid multiple reports of sexual violence inflicted upon imprisoned Afghan women
Zahra Joya, Chris McGreal, Khudadad Poladi, Annie Kellyand Tom Levitt
Wed 3 Jul 2024 10.36 BST
Last modified on Wed 3 Jul 2024 11.25 BST
The Guardian has seen video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being gang-raped and tortured in a Taliban jail by armed men.
There have been mounting reports that sexual violence is being inflicted on women and girls being held in detention in Afghanistan, but this video is believed to be the first direct evidence of these crimes occurring.
According to the activist, the mobile phone footage was later sent to her as a threat that it would be shared more widely if she continued to speak out against the Taliban regime.
In the video recording viewed by the Guardian, the young woman is filmed being told to take off her clothes and is then raped multiple times by two men.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/03/video-appears-to-shows-gang-rape-of-woman-in-a-taliban-jail
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Source: The Guardian
Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’
Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights
Ahmad Ahmadi*, Zahra Nader and Farshid Aram*
Tue 25 Jun 2024 05.00 BST
Teenage girls and young women arrested by the Taliban for wearing “bad hijab” say they have been subjected to sexual violence and assault in detention.
In more than one case the arrests and sexual abuse that young women faced while in custody earlier this year led to suicide and attempted suicide, reporters from the Afghan news service Zan Times were told.
In one case, a woman’s body was allegedly found in a canal a few weeks after she had been taken into custody by Taliban militants, with a source close to her family saying she had been sexually abused before her death.
The UN say that many women were detained by the Taliban for “bad hijab” in December 2023 and January 2024, following a Taliban decree that women must cover themselves from head to toe, revealing only their eyes.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/25/afghan-women-girls-accuse-taliban-sexual-assault-after-arrests-bad-hijab-suicide