The Assault on Women in Firuzkoh, Ghor (2022)

Incident
Date
Apr 6, 2022
Year of incident
2022
Province of incident
Ghor: Firozkoh (Chaghcharan)
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.5321794641909

Longitude: 65.247013136478

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Firozkoh (Chaghcharan)
Town/Village
Firozkoh
Types of incident
  • Arrest
  • Assault
  • Torture
Conflict parties
  • Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Taliban
  • The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice of Afghanistan (Taliban)
Regime in place
  • Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

On April 6, 2022, Taliban forces reportedly beat two women for wearing jeans in the city of Firuzkoh, the center of Ghor province, Afghanistan. According to a report from the Hasht-e-Sobh newspaper, following the assault, other women in the city fled the city and returned to their homes out of fear.

Source_1

AHRDO Database

8am Daily

No of victims involved
2