UN records torture, deaths of detainees in Taliban custody
Reuters The United Nations has recorded over 1,600 incidents of rights violations against people detained by the Taliban authorities, nearly half of them acts of torture and ill-treatment mostly by police and intelligence agents, a report released on Wednesday showed. The UN Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 18 people had also died in prisons and […]
Over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in blasts, violence since August 2021 – UN
Reuters Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the UN’s mission to Afghanistan released on Tuesday. Between 15th August, 2021, and May this year 1,095 civilians were killed and 2,679 wounded, according to the […]