The Assault on Women in Firuzkoh, Ghor (2022)

Document
Date
۱۷ فروردین ۱۴۰۱
Year of Incident
2022
Province of incident
Ghor: Chaghcharan
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5321794641909

Longitude: 65.247013136478

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
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)
Perpetrators
  • Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
Summary

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.

Sources

AHRDO Database

8am Daily

No of victims involved
2