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

Afghanistan’s Taliban Government has issued a document permitting husbands and fathers to punish their wives and children physically, provided the violence does not result in ...

Under the code, psychological and sexual violence are not explicitly prohibited, leaving significant gaps in legal protection. The maximum penalty for abuse is 15 days in prison, and only in cases ...

THE Taliban has legalised domestic violence in Afghanistan in a terrifying new assault on women’s rights. Signed off by ...

Swara Bhasker condemned the Taliban's new penal code in Afghanistan as inhumane and regressive, criticizing its impact on ...

Javed Akhtar has strongly criticised the Taliban's reported move to permit wife beating under certain conditions, calling for unconditional condemnation.

Taliban’s new criminal code allows husbands to beat wives within limits and replaces Afghanistan’s 2009 women protection law.

A new penal code has been published by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which will legalise acts of physical punishment against women.

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”.

According to a new penal code issued by the regime, men can beat up their wives as long as “bones are not broken”, or the violence causes “open wounds”. The directive also includes children who can be ...

Afghanistan’s new laws, signed by the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, give animals ‘more rights’ than women as they legalise domestic violence.