Afghan magazine editor sentenced to jail for anti-Islamic blasphemy
Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the Afghanistan magazine Haqooq-i-Zan (translated as Women's Rights), was sentenced Sunday to two years in jail after being convicted of blasphemy for his publication of anti-Islamic articles. On Saturday, Kabul's Primary Court convicted Mohaqiq...
The United Nations has repeated its statements that abuses by coalition forces in Afghanistan are "totally unacceptable" and an "affront to the work of the international community in Afghanistan" after Australian TV broadcast video last week showing US soldiers...
Two US Army soldiers have been charged with prisoner abuse in an ongoing investigation into the deaths of two Afghan prisoners while in US custody, which has already led to charges being filed against 14 soldiers, the military said...
Afghan warlord backs investigation of civil war abuses, claims innocence
Former Afghan mujahideen Abdul Rabb Rasoul Sayyaf said Wednesday that he supported an inquiry into abuses committed by fighters during the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1990s, but he rejected calls...
US soldier sentenced in Afghan abuse case, Karzai criticizes leniency
US soldier Glendale Wells was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison by a military court for his role in abusing an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar , who died in December 2002 at Bagram Control Point [Global...
US agrees to 'gradual' transfer of prisoners to Afghan custody
A US embassy spokesman in Kabul said Thursday that the US will gradually return Afghan prisoners in US custody to Afghan custody once Afghanistan develops the capacity to detain them. The announcement comes after President Bush's meetings in May...
Activists say Afghanistan considering war crimes court in response to allegations
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said Monday that the government of Afghanistan is considering creating a war crimes court to deal with allegations of human rights abuses dating back to the Soviet invasion in the 1970s....
Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity, Human Rights Watch , July 6, 2005 [report calling for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to establish a Special Court to try high-level government officials and others accused of taking...
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch Wednesday issued a new report calling for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to establish a Special Court to try high-level government officials and others accused of...
US military forces in Afghanistan have released 53 prisoners after declaring that they were no longer considered threats. The release, made Tuesday, came just a few days after Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for Afghan custody of...
