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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

 Hengaw Organization for Human Rights- May 8, 2025
{Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj: Afghan prisoner Nabi Bayati dies following hunger strike
Nabi Bayati, an Afghan national imprisoned in Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison, has died after initiating a dry hunger strike to protest degrading treatment and punitive actions by prison authorities. According to reports received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Bayati initiated the hunger strike after being transferred to Ward 1 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, one of the facility’s most overcrowded and high-security sections. He cited discriminatory and degrading behavior by authorities as the reason for his protest. Sources inside the prison reported that Bayati and three other inmates were initially placed in a solitary confinement cell known as “Dar-Basteh,” following accusations of involvement in a physical altercation. The group was later moved to a high-tension unit under the order of Esmail Farajnezhad, deputy prison warden. Bayati began his hunger strike shortly after this transfer. Despite repeatedly informing officials of his hunger strike, prison authorities ignored his condition and intensified his punishment by relocating him to the hallway of Ward 9—a transit area—where he was denied access to basic necessities. No medical response was provided during the hunger strike, which lasted four days and resulted in his death.}
Source: https://hengaw.net/en/news/2025/05/article-30


265,000 Afghans returned from Iran
Jinha - Womens News Center - May 7, 2025
{265,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2025
109,891 Afghans returned from Pakistan in a month, between April 3 and May 3 and 265,000 undocumented Afghans returned from Iran between January and April 2025, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
News Center- Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been forced to leave their country and sought refuge in Pakistan and Iran in fear of death, imprisonment, poverty and hunger. Amid a sharp increase in the number of Afghan nationals returning from Pakistan – including 109,891 between 3 April and 3 May, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners Tuesday launched an appeal to scale up urgently needed support at border and neighboring areas, where dire conditions and funding shortfalls are compounding risks for the most vulnerable. The appeal for additional funding by the IOM-led Border Consortium in Afghanistan seeks to address the needs of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Afghan returnees, “most of whom are undocumented driven by the second phase of Pakistan’s Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP), which is expected to continue triggering large-scale returns in the coming month.” “Most of the people returning to Afghanistan are in a state of acute vulnerability, having been forced to leave behind their homes, possessions, and jobs. The most vulnerable of them, especially women and girls, are often separated from their families and they don’t have access to shelter and other essential services,” said Ugochi Daniels, IOM Deputy Director General for Operations. “At this most fragile time, we appeal to the international community to help us meet these urgent humanitarian needs.” In April, an average of 3,000 people, mostly women and children, returned per day through key border crossings in Nangarhar and Kandahar provinces, according to the latest IOM data.
‘Equally alarming is the condition of deportees from Iran’
“Equally alarming is the condition of deportees from Iran,” said IOM, stressing that it recorded over 265,000 undocumented Afghan returnees from Iran between January and April, with 75 per cent forcibly returned. “As the lead agency of the border consortium of humanitarian partners, IOM is prepared to ramp up its response and expand operations at critical entry points. However, without immediate additional funding, efforts to meet the growing demand and support vulnerable returnees and receiving communities will remain severely constrained,” said Ugochi Daniels.}
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/265-000-afghans-returned-from-iran-in-2025-36982


struggle against forced marriage
Jinha - Womens News Center - May 6, 2025 - By BAHARIN LEHIB
{Afghan woman calls for struggle against forced marriage
“As women, we are subjected to psychological and physical violence every day by the Taliban,” said women’s rights activist Wajiha Nejat, calling for a struggle against forced marriage.
Ghor- The number of forced marriages of girls in Afghanistan has been on rise since the beginning of the Afghan civil war (1992-1996). Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, this number has doubled, leading to an increase in domestic violence, suspicious deaths of women under the guise of “suicide” and femicide in Afghanistan. 183 child marriages and 10 cases of selling of children were registered in Herat and Baghdis provinces alone over 2018 and 2019 and the children were between 6 months and 17 years of age, said the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in a statement in 2021. Since August 15, 2021, Afghan women and girls have been erased from public life without having their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Since girls are deprived of their right to education in the country, families marry their daughters off at a young age for reasons such as protecting them from being forced into marriage to members of the Taliban, easing family poverty or supporting other family members. A 20-year-old woman identified as Abida died under suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan’s central Ghor province on April 27, 2025 after a Taliban member had been pressuring her family to marry her off to his brother. “Abida was killed because she refused to be the third wife of the Taliban member’s brother,” said Leila Naz, one of the relatives of Abida. “Abida killed herself by setting herself on fire to escape the forced marriage after the Taliban members arrested her father and brother.” A video showing how people attempted to extinguish the fire was shared on social media platforms, sparking anger in Afghanistan.
‘We must struggle against the forced marriage’
“As women, we are subjected to psychological and physical violence every day by the Taliban,” Wajiha Nejat, Afghan women’s rights activist, told NuJINHA. “Although the Taliban have killed many women over the past three years, they go unpunished. We must struggle against forced marriage in order to protect women and girls from the Taliban. Forced marriage is a form of gender-based violence and a serious human rights violation. Afghan women struggle against extremism while the international community remains silent. Urgent support and effective action are needed to raise a generation respecting human rights.”}
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/afghan-woman-calls-for-struggle-against-forced-marriage-36973?page=1
 
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