Afghanistan

September 29, 2020

Afghanistan: life in prison, looking to the future from behind bars

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For many people, prison is only a place where criminals serve their sentence. But there are also prisoners who are transformed during their imprisonment, deciding to abandon their past and change their future. Recently the directorate of prisons initiated a new program called “Prisoners’ Literacy and…

Source — Tolo news

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June 4, 2020

Afghanistan: life inside Kabul's women's prison during Covid-19

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Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul. In Afghanistan’s overcrowded prisons,…

Source — France 24

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April 24, 2020

Afghanistan: prison chief laments conditions in country's jails

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In unusually frank comments on April 21, Afghanistan’s new prison chief Ahmad Rashid Totakhail complained to journalists about widespread abuses in the country’s prison system. Totakhail described problems ranging from the lack of a comprehensive database on the length of detainees’ sentences to sexual…

Source — Gandhara

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November 13, 2018

Ahmad // 2 // Along the way...

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Afghanistan

Walls and borders. Ahmad left Afghanistan on the 7th of November, 2015. His journey brought him to prison. This is his story. Read more

December 23, 2017

Afghanistan: for more than 300 children, many older than 5, home is mother’s cellblock

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Topic Afghanistan

A survey of Afghan prisons this month by The New York Times concluded that at least 333 children are imprisoned with their mothers nationwide, according to interviews with officials at 33 of the country’s 34 provincial prisons.

Source — New York Times

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October 11, 2016

Afghanistan : most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons

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Women Afghanistan

When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would work…

Source — Reuters

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