Afghanistan: Relentless Repression 4 Years into Taliban Rule

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Afghan returnees cross the border from Iran, on July 3, 2025, in Islam Qala, Afghanistan. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images (New York) – The Taliban have deepened their repression since taking over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, by intensifying restrictions on the rights of women and girls, detaining journalists, and silencing all dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Afghanistan now faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, exacerbated by donor governments’ aid cuts and the return of 1.9 million refugees expelled from Iran and Pakistan. The…

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