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Los talibanes aplastan la protesta de las mujeres de Herat: “Nos gritaron: ‘¿Por qué no lleváis burka?”

Fawzia, una joven afgana que da un nombre falso por miedo a las represalias, tiene 18 años. Tenía 13 cuando los talibanes cerraron los institutos de secundaria para las chicas nada más apoderarse del poder en Afganistán, en 2021, y, con ellos, también las puertas de su futuro. El martes pasado, un talibán la encañonó con su arma en Jibrail, en la periferia de la ciudad occidental de Herat, donde “unas 400 personas”, hombres y mujeres, habían salido para protestar por la detención, en los días previos, de decenas de afganas, secuestradas en plena calle por las autoridades e introducidas a empellones en furgonetas blancas por no llevar burka. Esa prenda priva a las mujeres hasta de su mirada, al cubrir sus ojos con una rejilla de tela.

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Compradoras afganas buscan escobas en una tienda de carretera en Herat,en enero de 2023.
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Arab Barghouti, activist: ‘Israel doesn’t want a Palestinian leader who believes in peace’

Arab Barghouti at the Eurostars Plaza Mayor hotel in Madrid, June 3.

Arab Barghouti (Jerusalem, 35) says that “at the end of the day” he does not think of Marwan Barghouti as a politician, nor as the Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada (2000–2005), who was sentenced by Israel to five life terms in a trial full of irregularities 24 years ago. He thinks of himself as the son who wants his father “to come home.”

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The son of Marwan Barghouti, last Wednesday in Madrid, where he met with representatives of several parliamentary groups.
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Hell on earth for Afghan women: From the ban on education to the legal rape of girls

Since May 14, it has been legal for an adult man to rape a girl in Afghanistan. On that day, the Taliban enacted Decree No. 18, or the “Code on Judicial Separation of Spouses,” a regulation that legalizes child marriage without even requiring a performance of supposed consent from the girl; her silence is enough.

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Afghan women wait to receive food from an NGO in front of a Taliban militiaman in Kabul on May 23, 2023.
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Iran’s frozen assets, the last major stumbling block in negotiations with Washington

Talks to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz appear, for the first time in three months, to be moderately on track. At least that is the impression conveyed by public statements and leaks from both sides: water is beginning to fill the deep negotiating well, which until now had been practically dry.

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Memorial ceremony for those fallen in the war, Sunday in Tehran.
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