March 9, 2026, The Independent: A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality based on gender and social status. The decree, which was signed by Afghanistan’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in January, “defines several crimes and punishments that contravene Afghanistan’s international legal obligations” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said Thursday in remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
February 26, 2026, RAWA NEWS: Local sources in Badakhshan Province say that a young woman has died by suicide in the city of Fayzabad, the provincial capital. A source in Fayzabad, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the young woman took her own life on the evening of February 15th in the Old City area of Fayzabad. According to the source, the 21-year-old woman ended her life by ingesting rat poison.
January 22, 2026, RAWA NEWS: A dismembered body of a woman was discovered in the Kabul River. The incident occurred on Sunday, January 14, 2026, in the Chehelston area of Kabul, where Taliban forces secured the scene after the body was found. Witnesses say the body was retrieved from a sack in the river after being spotted by children scavenging through trash. Another source indicated that the body had initially been found in a trash bin before being thrown into the river.
January 18, 2026, RAWA NEWS: Taliban morality enforcers (Religious police) disrupted a graduation ceremony for medical students in Herat on 16 January, entering the venue while armed and halting the program. During the incident, more than 50 graduates were forced to remove their neckties in front of hundreds of attendees. A video from the event shows armed Taliban members, including one carrying a Kalashnikov...
January 18, 2026, RAWA NEWS: Herat, Afghanistan — Khadija Ahmadzada, a 22-year-old Afghan athlete and women’s taekwondo coach, was detained by Taliban “morality” forces on January 10, 2026 while training female students at a hidden sports club in Herat’s Jebrail district, according to local sources. Ahmadzada — who has been involved in taekwondo as both a competitor and coach and is reported to have been a member of Afghanistan’s national taekwondo team
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