Reporters Without Borders (RSF) named Maryam Naibkhil, managing director of Zan Television Network, among the five nominees for its 2026 Press Freedom Prize in the “Journalistic Independence” category.

The UNAMA says in a new report that the Taliban arrested at least 30 women and girls during a campaign to enforce their prescribed hijab in Herat city and transferred them to Herat Provincial Prison.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says in a new report that Taliban morality inspectors in several provinces have barred women without a male guardian, or mahram, from shopping, accessing healthcare and moving freely.

Several former female prisoners told Zan News that they faced threats, beatings and sexual abuse in Taliban prisons. This report presents the accounts of two women from Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif and what they endured behind the walls of these prisons.