[Pajhwok] Nearly 5000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... during the past two days, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Monday.
[KhaamaNews] According to a report released by Save the Children on Monday, October 31, the need for malnutrition treatment has increased significantly in the country, with some infants succumbing before receiving any treatment.
About 2,500 malnourished children were treated in January by Save the Children’s 57 mobile health teams. According to just-released figures, by September, that number had risen to almost 4,270 children admitted by 66 teams.
During the recent summer harvest season, experts had hoped to witness a decrease in the prevalence of hunger in Afghanistan. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the prolonged drought has resulted in failing crops and considerably lowers than usual harvests, causing many rural families to sell their property and livestock in order to raise enough food to feed their children.
"Humanitarian organizations like Save the Children are stretched to the absolute limit trying to stop children dying from hunger every day in Afghanistan. But the truth is, with so many children facing life-threatening levels of hunger, we simply do not have the resources to save them all," said Chris Nyamandi, the country director of Save the Children in Afghanistan.
Save the Children has expanded its response after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... retook power in August 2021 to help the growing number of children in need. Since September 2021, Save the Children, according to the report has reached more than 3.3 million people, including 1.8 million children.
This comes as Afghanistan is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, which is magnified by widespread poverty, hunger, unemployment, and the political turmoil in the country which has aggravated the crisis.
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Billions spent and we didn’t even leave them a school lunch program. Hopefully, we will do better in Ukraine.
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Feed tommorow's enemy today! Are you not ashamed of yourselves? Prospective rapists and slashers and stabbers and bombers of your children may not even get to grow old! At least airlift them all to Minnesota?
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One of the preferred fences for the Ukrainian thieves us tge Albanian mafia. This is where the lions’ share of America’s $66 billion in wasted aid has ended up.
[KhaamaNews] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... allegedly interrupted and suppressed the demonstration of women in Kabul, the Afghan capital, held by the Afghanistan Powerful Women Movement members on Monday, October 31.
According to protesters who spoke with the local media, the Taliban resorted to violence, intimidation, and humiliation in addition to tearing some of the women’s documents to scatter their protest march.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... a large number of female students at Badakhshan University in northeastern Afghanistan protested as well after being denied access to the university for not wearing a burqa.
The girls are struck with a whip by one of the Taliban fighters in the publicly available videos, who is supposedly a virtue and vice official of the Taliban.
Student protests in Badakhshan received extensive coverage in domestic media. Social networks have strongly criticized the Taliban’s treatment of students.
This comes as Richard Bennett, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... in Afghanistan, said that the country had put in place harsh restrictions and hurdles aimed at making women "invisible" in society, a setback that was "unprecedented" in the country’s history.
The Taliban’s policy of barring girls from going to school, according to many Islamic studies experts, has no basis in Islam, and Afghanistan is the only country in the world to ban girls from getting an education past the 6th grade.
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[KavkazUzel] "Honor killing" as a punishment for refusing to marry is not envisaged either in Islam, or in Sharia or Muslim customs, Caucasian scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" commented on the persecution by relatives of four Dagestan sisters. Men in Dagestan often invoke the notion of "honour killings" for illiteracy to justify domestic violence, they pointed out.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 29, border guards in North Ossetia refused to allow four girls from Dagestan who had escaped from domestic violence to enter Georgia, and kept them at the checkpoint until their relatives arrived. The girls themselves claimed that they were beaten at home, forbidden to receive education and tried to force them to marry, including to a relative. They asked not to return them to their relatives, fearing that they were looking for them "to kill."
On October 30, the girls were allowed into the territory of Georgia, where they are in a safer place , human rights activists said.
Patimat Magomedova, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizriev and Aminat Gazimagomedova are relatives (two sisters, a cousin and a second cousin). Having run away from home, they spent three months in crisis apartments, journalist and human rights activist Svetlana Anokhina told the "Caucasian Knot".
Refusal to marry a man who is imposed by relatives cannot be a basis for an "honor killing," said Akhmet Yarlykapov, a senior researcher at the Center for Caucasus Problems and Regional Security, an employee of MGIMO .
"The fact is that honor killing is lawlessness. According to Sharia, a woman's guilt must be proven. For example, if it is a matter of treason, then four witnesses must confirm this fact. Only in this case, the murder of a woman can become possible, but only by the decision of the Sharia court. The perpetrator of the murder is also appointed by the decision of the Sharia court. It does not have to be a close relative. But what I say does not in any way relate to the history of these girls," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Women whose behavior is considered a disgrace to the clan by their relatives may become victims of "honor killings" in the Caucasus. These murders are committed by relatives themselves, most often by a father or brother, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Honor killings in the North Caucasus."
The notion of "honour killings" is generally inapplicable to this situation, the expert on the Caucasus emphasized. "It is impossible to kill for refusing to marry either according to Islam or according to adats . There are no such reasons in Islam. There are also no adats and customs. These are speculations of men who use domestic violence, they are used to forcing women to do what they consider right. And if the woman resists, he uses violence, threatens, kills and then explains it as honor killing, which is fundamentally wrong and illegal," Yarlykapov said. According to Google : Adat is a generic term derived from Arabic to describe a variety of local customary practices and traditions as observed by Muslim communities
In many cases, these people refer to Sharia concepts, but they themselves do not know that Sharia prohibits domestic violence, the expert added. "In order to justify their actions, they invent and refer to honor killings. People take advantage of conservative sentiments in society, strive to make society support them. And these sentiments, coupled with the illiteracy of the population, which refer to Sharia, but little know about him, lead to stories like these girls have," he said.
Refusal of marriage cannot be a reason for "honor killing," the ethnologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Arutyunov also pointed out . “Marrying a relative is normal in many nations. Such a custom really exists. But there has never been a legal reason to kill for refusing such a marriage. It was in the last century. Now the prosecutor's office, the supervisory authorities must ensure that there is no forced marriage, as it is illegal," Arutyunov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to him, the murder is possible only by the decision of the Sharia court, if the woman has committed treason and there are at least four witnesses. "Other reasons, such as the refusal of marriage, cannot be the basis for killing a woman. This is invented by men to justify their actions. They interpret customs and adats in a wrong way, and, as a result, commit actions that contradict both Islamic traditions "Honor killing has become an excuse for any situations when a man believes that his honor has been hurt and you can resort to this concept," Artyunov said.
There is not even approximate data on the number of honor killings, Saida Sirazhudinova , president of the Center for the Study of Global Contemporary Issues and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
"The reason is that most of these cases “manage” to hide. There are many more of them than those that we know about and those that were sentenced. For this year, I have not conducted a study and have not analyzed yet. "I can't. But quite recently there was a case of the murder of a sister and a neighbor in Dagestan. It is known because it happened on the street. But most of the 'honor killings' are thought out and planned. Then the victim simply disappears and no one is looking for her," she said.
According to her, usually women and girls are killed, explaining these killings as "honour killings," for "tarnishing the honor of the family, shame, slander, behavior contrary to tradition." "And often just for gossip," said Saida Sirazhudinova.
In Dagestan, this is already happening on a systematic basis due to the fact that such facts are not recorded, she added. “Given the high number of “honour killings”, the support of the practice by the population, and the widespread occurrence, we can talk about the system at the moment,” Sirazhudinova emphasized.
Four Dagestani girls who accused relatives of domestic violence are still in Georgia, but plan to move to another country, human rights activists said. There were traces of beatings on the girls, as well as an attempt by border guards to prevent the sisters from being released, and this increased their chances of obtaining asylum abroad, they noted.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 29, border guards in North Ossetia refused to let four sisters from Dagestan who had fled domestic violence into Georgia, and kept them at the checkpoint until their relatives arrived. The girls themselves claimed that they were beaten at home, forbidden to receive education and tried to force them to marry, including to a relative. They asked not to return them to their relatives, fearing that they were looking for them "to kill." On October 30, the girls were allowed into the territory of Georgia, where they are in a safer place , the SOS Crisis Group, which helped the sisters, said.
Patimat Magomedova, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizriev and Aminat Gazimagomedova are relatives (two sisters, a cousin and a second cousin). Having run away from home, they spent three months in crisis apartments, Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist and human rights activist from the Marem organization, told the "Caucasian Knot".
The girls are still in Georgia, but in the near future they will go to another country, Aleksandra Miroshnikova, press secretary of the SOS Crisis Group, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.
"Now they are in relative safety, but it’s too early to talk about the complete absence of risks: the families of the girls said that relatives would also look for them in Georgia to return them home," she said, without specifying where the sisters would go.
The conditions for obtaining asylum depend on the country, Alexandra Miroshnikova explained. "Each country has its own rules and its own priority in considering applications. If a person is in danger in the host country, then the application can be considered. However, in order to be granted asylum in other countries due to domestic violence, it is necessary to document that violence has taken place, in Russia this the case is not being investigated, and in any region of Russia a woman will continue to be in danger, including from the side of law enforcement agencies or due to their deliberate inaction. It is extremely difficult to document all three factors," she said.
Evidence of violence and threats can be, for example, recorded beatings, the human rights activist pointed out. "Our clients recorded beatings," the press secretary of the SOS IC emphasized, noting that she did not have data on the frequency of refusals in asylum and their reasons.
For those who decide to flee abroad from domestic violence or threats from relatives, it is better to act through specialized non-governmental organizations, as they can provide both logistical assistance in terms of moving, temporary shelter and organization of life, as well as legal assistance in terms of applying for asylum in any country, filing a complaint in connection with the beatings and removing from the wanted list.
"There are a large number of organizations that help girls in the North Caucasus who have experienced domestic violence," Miroshnikova said, naming Marem, Kitezh, Sisters, Violence.No, Consortium of Women's NGOs, among such organizations. "SilSila" and "You are not alone." Even if these organizations cannot help, they will at least contact other human rights activists who will "definitely help," Alexandra Miroshnikova noted.
Svetlana Anokhina confirmed today that the girls are in relative safety and are in Georgia, and then they will go to another country. In her opinion, they have a chance to get asylum. "In the case of girls, there is not only domestic violence, but also persecution with the help of representatives of the state," Anokhina explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
At the same time, it is impossible to predict what kind of evidence of domestic violence and persecution will be accepted by the authorities when considering an asylum request, Svetlana Anokhina added.
Earlier, human rights activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" told how a victim of domestic violence should act if she plans to leave her family. In particular, they recommended that they write a statement asking them not to look for them, find a lawyer, refuse contact with their relatives and change their phone and SIM card, and ask for help in case of abduction. However, they stressed that all these measures may be useless, especially in the Caucasus, due to the fact that legal mechanisms do not work, the abduction of victims of violence by relatives does not lead to criminal liability, and the authorities prefer not to notice the problem.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote about other cases when relatives tried to return home women who had run away from domestic violence. So, on October 18, 2021, two girls who had run away from relatives in Dagestan were taken against their will by the security forces from the crisis center in Kazan. The girls later got in touch, assuring them that everything was fine with them, and urged them not to look for them. They made these statements under pressure, because before escaping from their families, the girls asked for help for a year to leave the Caucasus, Svetlana Anokhina then pointed out.
In June 2021, 22-year-old Khalimat Taramova was abducted by security forces from a shelter in Makhachkala and returned to Chechnya. How this happened is described in the "Caucasian Knot" certificate " Khalimat Taramova: Victim of Traditions and Security Forces."
The adviser and wife of the Mufti of Dagestan, Aina Gamzatova, appealed to the girls who accused their relatives of violence and ran away from home with a request to return to her personal responsibility.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that, according to human rights activists, on October 29, border guards refused to allow four girls from Dagestan who had escaped from domestic violence to pass through the Upper Lars checkpoint, and kept them at the checkpoint until their relatives arrived.
Patimat Magomedova, Aminat Gazimagomedova, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizriev allege that they were beaten at home, forbidden to receive education, and tried to force them to marry. They asked not to return them to their families and complained about the threats. On October 30, they, together with their lawyer, were let into neutral territory, then Georgian border guards let them into the territory of Georgia, but they were afraid to leave the checkpoint, as their relatives were waiting for them. On the same day, the SOS crisis group reported that the girls “left the territory of the Georgian checkpoint andare in a safer place."
Aina Gamzatova turned to the girls, saying that she was not indifferent to their fate. "Now you have made a decision against the backdrop of accumulated fear, negativity and the prospects drawn before you. But it is very unlikely that life in a foreign land will be joyful and easy. If you have at least some regret about what happened, return back to Dagestan. Return under my personal responsibility!" - the adviser and wife of the Mufti of Dagestan wrote in her Telegram channel on October 30 at 19:12 Moscow time. Today, by 08:35 Moscow time, the post gained 2.4 thousand views.
Gamzatova noted that she knows people "who left like this, leaving everything and everyone behind."
"Some were forced to do this, someone hoped for a better life, believe me, they are all unhappy and doomed to the need to survive. If there is a desire, we will talk with your loved ones, if there is no such desire, we will find you an opportunity to live and study on your own " she wrote, addressing the girls.
The girls themselves thanked those who helped them. "Thanks to everyone who supported us. Thanks to the publicity, we were able to save ourselves," they said in their appeal, published on October 30 at 18:20 Moscow time in the Telegram channel of the SOS Crisis Group.
The post is accompanied by a video message in which the four girls thank the lawyers and the media for helping them and publicizing their story. "Thanks to the publicity, we were able to get out, escape, leave Russia. [...] Now we are in Georgia, everything is fine with us. [...] Of course, our relatives are looking for us, they promised to find us in Georgia," he says one of the girls in the video, which had 652,000 views by 08:35 Moscow time.
Recall that Patimat Magomedova, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizriev and Aminat Gazimagomedova ran away from home and spent three months in a crisis apartment, journalist and human rights activist Svetlana Anokhina told the "Caucasian Knot". She compared the case of the Dagestan women with the story of the Chechen Khalimat Taramova, who was taken by force from a shelter in Makhachkala by her relatives.
[Shafaq News] Dutch military personnel will continue to secure Erbil international airport until May next year, when other allies will take over that task, the Netherlands Times said on Sunday.
From 2024, the Netherlands may make a multi-year contribution to the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... mission, ministers Wopke Hoekstra (Foreign Affairs), Kajsa Ollongren (Defence) and Liesje Schreinemacher (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) informed the Tweede Kamer in a letter.
About 120 military personnel are currently involved in airport security. They are part of the international coalition against the terrorist group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS). Dutch military personnel will remain active in Iraq for this mission and other deployment at least until the end of next year.
For the NATO mission, Dutch military personnel would contribute to security and armored transport capacity in the capital Baghdad and the surrounding area. The Cabinet is currently investigating the desirability and possibility of this contribution, the Cabinet wrote to the Tweede Kamer.
According to the Cabinet, it remains of strategic importance for the Netherlands to contribute to a safer and more stable Iraq, "at the heart of a very unstable region, on the edge of Europe." According to the ministers, the country faces many problems, including insecurity, corruption and a lack of economic prospects. According to them, leaving Iraq completely would not be "wise" and would be at the expense of "previous results" in the fight against IS.
The Cabinet said "the center of gravity of international efforts in Iraq is shifting. Previously, it focused mainly on fighting IS, which has also suffered heavy losses as a result. Now the military deployment is more focused on preventing a renewed escalation and on strengthening the security sector in the country."
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[IsraelTimes] Even generous forecasts cap neglected minority’s turnout at 50%, but Balad’s breakaway from Hadash-Ta’al offers those who refuse to cooperate with government a new political home.
[IsraelTimes] Judiciary chief indicates that some will be charged with collaborating with foreign governments, vows judges will deal with all cases with ’accuracy and speed’.
Iranian authorities announced on Monday they will hold public trials for 1,000 people in the capital, Tehran, over the protests that have convulsed the country. The mass indictments mark the government’s first major legal action aimed at quashing dissent since unrest erupted over six weeks ago.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted judicial officials as saying that a thousand people who had a central role in the protests would be brought to trial in Tehran alone over their "subversive actions," including assaulting security guards, setting fire to public property and other accusations.
The nationwide protests first erupted over the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police. She was detained for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women. Although the protests first focused on Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, they have since transformed into one of the greatest challenges to the ruling holy mans since the chaotic years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
"Those who intend to confront and subvert the regime are dependent on foreigners and will be punished according to legal standards," said Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, indicating that some protesters would be charged with collaborating with foreign governments. Tehran officials have repeated unsupported claims that Iran’s foreign enemies have fomented the unrest.
"Without a doubt, our judges will deal with the cases of the recent riots with accuracy and speed," he said.
Security forces have dispersed gatherings with live ammunition and tear gas over the weeks of sustained protests. At least 270 people have been killed and 14,000 arrested, according to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. Demonstrations have continued — even as the feared paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has warned young Iranians to stop.
Ejei claimed that prosecutors sought to differentiate between angry Iranians who merely sought to vent their grievances on the streets and those who wanted to take down the theocracy.
"Even among the agitators, it should be clarified who had the attention of confronting the system and overthrowing it," he said.
Judicial authorities have announced charges against hundreds of people in other Iranian provinces. Some have been accused of "corruption on earth" and "war against God," offenses that carry the death penalty .
[AnNahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... chief Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... has re-accused Hezbollah and its allies of obstructing the election of a new president.
Geagea said that if the opposition MPs were unified, they could have elected a new president. "The other camp can obstruct a session or two but eventually it cannot continue to obstruct the sessions," Geagea said, adding that the LF had named MP Michel Mouawad because the majority of the opposition MPs wanted him, although he had run against the LF in the parliamentary elections.
Geagea went on to suggest Army chief Joseph Aoun as a presidential candidate.
"It is possible to elect Gen. Aoun, as all countries lean toward electing their army chief when the presidential election is obstructed," Geagea said.
Geagea considered that Hezbollah is being held hostage by Free Patriotic chief Jebran Bassil in the presidential elections and in other matters. "If Bassil insists on the energy ministerial portfolio, Hezbollah would accept," Geagea said.
Geagea said that Hezbollah's arms alone are not enough to gain political strength. He added that contrary to what people believe, Hezbollah is not politically strong. "It needs its allies, in order to rule the country."
[AnNahar] The country is “headed for disaster amid presidential and governmental vacuum” and “there is still a chance to form a government in the final moments” of President Michel Aoun’s term, Free Patriotic Movement sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Monday.
Aoun’s six-year tenure will expire at midnight and parliament has failed four times to elect a successor.
Al-Akhbar added that “there are strenuous efforts to push for the formation of a government whose decrees would be signed by Aoun” and “emphasis that vacuum should not leave any repercussions on the ground.”
Informed sources meanwhile told the daily that Hezbollah “does not want to boycott the caretaker cabinet, but at the same time is insisting that the cabinet and its premier should not take provocative or unilateral decisions that would disregard a main party like the FPM.”
Hezbollah has also agreed with Speaker Nabih Berri that caretaker PM Najib Mikati should not convene the caretaker cabinet “except for extraordinary and emergency cases and after winning the approval of all parties represented in the government,” the sources added.
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
