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Understanding the Taliban’s New Legal Code

The reinstatement of slavery in Afghanistan removes all doubt that the Taliban intend to subject Afghanistan to a hideously ...
In January 2026, the Taliban implemented a new Criminal Procedure Code that serves less as a judicial framework and more as a ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban has unveiled a new criminal procedure code that divides citizens into rigid legal classes, grants ...
At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, ...
The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code ...
The 'Criminal Procedure Code for Courts' divides Afghan society into four social tiers: religious scholars, elite, middle ...
A human rights group claimed that the Taliban code has divided society into four unequal categories, where it has legitimised slavery (‘Ghulami’) and has kept Mullahs and clerics immune, meaning they ...
The regime’s new criminal code ‘Criminal Procedure Code for Courts’ looks to follow and intensity its regressive social and political stances, as it has provisions that would legalise slavery and ...