COLLAGE OF AFGHANISTAN & IRAN
FAYEZA FAYEZ
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Under the Taliban in Afghanistan, music is crime, and musicians are criminals! Afghanistan’s rich musical culture under the growing humanitarian crisis, is under threat as the Taliban have banned music since their return to power last year. According to the Taliban’s Law, there are limited exceptions regarding music which include Islamic songs. When the regime took over in 1996, musical instruments were destroyed as were cassette tapes. The Taliban viewed music as sinful and musicians were also persecuted and many were forced into hiding.
The Taliban regime that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 had also banned music under its strict interpretation of Islamic law. Most musicians who remained in Afghanistan at that time either played secretly in their homes or hid their instruments. Some literally buried their precious instruments underground. The Taliban punished these men recently for playing music by hanging their instruments from their necks in Helmand province.
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The Taliban has turned football stadiums into people’s execution field in Afghanistan. The Taliban gather people inside the stadiums so that they watch men and women get flogged, tortured and stoned to death. They whipped 18 men and 9 women in Parwan province today. Afghan men and women, after twenty years of freedom and democracy were driven into darkness and cruelty. Taliban never change. The world must act before it is too late! #BanTaliban
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The Taliban in 1990s and in 2020s! #Taliban are terrorists and this fact will NEVER change!
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Afghan Women under the #Taliban regime! This video is the stoning of a women called Rokhshana!! Rokhshana was stoned only for refusing a forced marriage. Few days ago in Farah province, locals were invited to see and participate in the stoning of a Rokhshana. And after the execution they congratulated all the supporters of human rights on this public execution ! How many more evidence you need in order to help women of Afghanistan? How many more women of Afghanistan needs to be rapped, imprisoned, stoned, flogged, killed and tortured? #BanTaliban United Nations
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Devastating & Inhumane!
The Iran Islamic Republic hanged another protester, days after carrying out its first execution over protests sparked by #MahsaAmini’s killing. #MajidrezaRahnavard was publicly hanged 23 days after arrest. Activists called trials a “sham.” At least 18 others are at risk of execution. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
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Taliban will never change. They are a terrorist group & will continue committing atrocities. The Taliban have reportedly carried out the FIRST public execution in Afghanistan’s Farah province. They invited people to the stadium to watch two men being HANGED and a woman STONED to death.
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Soccer journalist Grant Wahl who was kicked out of a stadium in QATAR for this shirt has reportedly collapsed and passed away during the Argentina game. His brother says on Instagram that Grant was fully healthy & believes there’s foul play. #Qatar must be investigated and whoever responsible must be held accountable.
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The Taliban court in #Parwan announced that 18 men and 9 women were flogged for various charges in Charikar city of Parwan province. The #Taliban also announced the flogging of 3 people in #Paktika Province & 3 people, including a woman, in #Nangarhar.
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Struggle to survive – Horrific and Heartbreaking scene from the attack on a Chinese hotel in Kabul. One of the hotel guests can be seen throwing himself from the sixth floor of the building on the heart of Afghanistan’s capital in fear of the attackers.
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Kabul, Afghanistan, 1970. Girls and boys go to school. Poor but peaceful. Less food but more freedom. Less tears but smile. We miss it so much. #freeAfghanistan
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A number of deprived Afghan kids are acting as they work on something in an office. Imagine the thirst for education and dreams for being successful individuals in the society! These kids deserve having proper schools, computers and a safe future to live in. #EducationForAll #Afghan_child
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Zarifa Yaqoubi was arrested by the Taliban a month ago during a news conference, and despite international condemnation, she is still in the custody of this group. The international community must stop giving flows of cash to the Taliban in order to force them to accept the demands for women’s rights, and to stop their crimes against the Afghans.
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Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban’s interior minister, gave 100,000 Afghanis to the family of Tajmir, who was shot dead by the group on Wednesday in Farah. Haqqani was one of the senior Taliban leaders who had been present to witness the shooting of the man.
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The Taliban have drawn curtain between boys & girls in classes in the elementary school of Nimroz province so that these schoolchildren cannot see each other. According to the locals, this action was taken after the #Taliban visited the schools of the districts of this province and severely criticized the education of boys and girls in primary school under one roof.
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This is the original Afghan culture- Afghan students in the 1970s. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #freeAfghanistan
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