In January 2026, the Taliban implemented a new Criminal Procedure Code that serves less as a judicial framework and more as a ...

The reinstatement of slavery in Afghanistan removes all doubt that the Taliban intend to subject Afghanistan to a hideously ...

Accurate scrutiny should begin with precision about what the law actually says, how it functions legally, and where ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban has unveiled a new criminal procedure code that divides citizens into rigid legal classes, grants ...

The 'Criminal Procedure Code for Courts' divides Afghan society into four social tiers: religious scholars, elite, middle ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, triggering widespread ...

A human rights group claimed that the Taliban code has divided society into four unequal categories, where it has legitimised slavery (‘Ghulami’) and has kept Mullahs and clerics immune, meaning they ...

The regime’s new criminal code ‘Criminal Procedure Code for Courts’ looks to follow and intensity its regressive social and political stances, as it has provisions that would legalise slavery and ...