BAHARIN LEHIB

News Center- Women are killed, subjected to violence and all kinds of rights violations in Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban. On August 21, 2024, the Taliban authorities announced the ratification of a detailed “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” which bans women from raising their voices in public, and requires Afghan women to cover their faces. Several days ago, 16 women were arrested in Afghanistan’s Khost province for “not wearing the proper hijab”. In the country, the policies of the Taliban pave the way for femicide and they reward the killers of women with impunity.

Deepening poverty in Afghanistan causes families to marry off their daughters at an early age. In addition, there is an increase in the rate of domestic violence and femicide in the country and the media underrepresents crimes against women because the Taliban control the media.

NuJINHA compiled news from local and national newspapers, news websites and news agencies in Afghanistan to list the cases of suspicious deaths among women and femicide in September.

*September 3: A young woman named Saliha died under suspicious circumstances in the district of Tiora, Ghor province. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

*September 5: One woman was killed by her husband in the village of Daman, Kandahar Province.

*September 6: A 20-year-old woman identified as Bibi Amina was killed by her husband in the town of Spin Boldak, Kandahar province.

*September 8: One woman was killed at her home in the district of Shirin-Tagab, Faryab Province.

*September 9: A young woman died under suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan’s Badghis province. According to the local reports, she had been subjected to domestic violence. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

*September 10: A woman named Kamila was killed by her husband in the district of Khwaja Sabz Posh, Faryab province.

*September 13: A 20-year-old woman died under suspicious circumstances in the village of Qades, Badghis province. According to the local reports, the young woman killed herself because she had been subjected to domestic violence.

*September 17: An 11-year-old girl named Fatima died under suspicious circumstances in Maymana, the capital city of Faryab province. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

*September 18: A 25-year-old woman was killed by an unknown person in the town of Qala-e-Naw, Badghis Province.