Herat’s refurbished citadel, bits of the Blue Mosque, a couple of shots of the city and a look inside the Burns Hospital which deals with horrific self-immolation cases. See more Afghan portraits here, images from a motorbike roadtrip to the Minaret of Jam here, and graphic pictures of an American Air Ambulance in Kandahar here.
December 3, 2011 at 6:41pm Comments
December 2, 2011 at 6:00pm Comments
An Afghan woman who was jailed for being raped and then told to marry her attacker by a judge has had her sentence overturned by the country’s president.
November 26, 2011 at 9:53pm Comments
Please sign this petition to help free Gulnaz. She was jailed for being raped in Afghanistan, she gave birth to her baby daughter on the floor of her prison cell, and the judge told her the only way to reduce her sentence was to marry her attacker.
She tried to tell the world her story, but the European Union censored a film which they commissioned to raise awareness about women’s rights.
Please re-blog, re-post, tweet and circulate any way you can. The response so far has been overwhelming. Friends of mine visited her in prison today and said she was giddy at the thought of freedom and overjoyed by the international support for her cause.
November 26, 2011 at 2:15pm Comments
Firing ranges became driving ranges as soldiers in Afghanistan swapped their weapons for wedges to mark a morale-boosting visit by the Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie.
November 25, 2011 at 12:26pm Comments
An Afghan woman who was jailed for being raped and then censored by the European Union when she tried to tell the world her story has had her sentence cut from twelve years to three after her ordeal…
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