More than a week after the deadly attack on Shia families in Injil district of Herat, the perpetrators remain unclear and no group has claimed responsibility.

Women say that before leaving home, they look in the mirror repeatedly, not out of care for appearance, but out of fear that the colour of their clothes, the length of their coat or the type of their dress may be used as a pretext for arrest, humiliation or contact with their families.

The Afghanistan Powerful Women’s Movement has condemned the recent attack on Shia citizens in Herat province.

The Taliban have publicly flogged 12 people, including two women, in the provinces of Khost, Zabul and Herat.