Zan Times
@zantimes.bsky.social
A women-led newsroom reporting on the human rights situation, women and the LGBTQ community in Afghanistan.
Sign up to stay informed: http://Zantimes.com/newsletter
Sign up to stay informed: http://Zantimes.com/newsletter
Pinned
Led by Afghan women, Zan Times is an investigative newsroom exposing human rights violations under Taliban rule. We provide fact-based reporting from inside Afghanistan, amplifying voices the Taliban wants to erase.
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
In rural Afghanistan, women have long managed water use, sustained household agriculture, and passed down ecological knowledge critical to the survival of their families and communities. Yet they are also the most vulnerable to environmental collapse.
zantimes.com/2026/01/09/h...
zantimes.com/2026/01/09/h...
January 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
In rural Afghanistan, women have long managed water use, sustained household agriculture, and passed down ecological knowledge critical to the survival of their families and communities. Yet they are also the most vulnerable to environmental collapse.
zantimes.com/2026/01/09/h...
zantimes.com/2026/01/09/h...
Rabia Balkhi High School has effectively been reduced to a girls’ primary school. Somaya, a staff member, says that of 56 classrooms once filled with students, only 17 are now in use. The others stand empty.
zantimes.com/2026/01/07/h...
zantimes.com/2026/01/07/h...
January 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Rabia Balkhi High School has effectively been reduced to a girls’ primary school. Somaya, a staff member, says that of 56 classrooms once filled with students, only 17 are now in use. The others stand empty.
zantimes.com/2026/01/07/h...
zantimes.com/2026/01/07/h...
Led by Afghan women, Zan Times is an investigative newsroom exposing human rights violations under Taliban rule. We provide fact-based reporting from inside Afghanistan, amplifying voices the Taliban wants to erase.
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Led by Afghan women, Zan Times is an investigative newsroom exposing human rights violations under Taliban rule. We provide fact-based reporting from inside Afghanistan, amplifying voices the Taliban wants to erase.
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Sign up for our newsletter: zantimes.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Zulala Hashemi rose to public attention after appearing on one of Afghanistan’s most popular music competition programmes on Tolo TV, where she placed second among 12contestants. After the show ended, she disappeared from public view.
Read more: zantimes.com/2026/01/05/a...
Read more: zantimes.com/2026/01/05/a...
January 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Zulala Hashemi rose to public attention after appearing on one of Afghanistan’s most popular music competition programmes on Tolo TV, where she placed second among 12contestants. After the show ended, she disappeared from public view.
Read more: zantimes.com/2026/01/05/a...
Read more: zantimes.com/2026/01/05/a...
‘Everything we had, they took away’: how women are defying the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on protest
This report has been published in partnership with the @theguardian.com
zantimes.com/2025/12/29/e...
This report has been published in partnership with the @theguardian.com
zantimes.com/2025/12/29/e...
‘Everything we had, they took away’: how women are defying the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on protest
Since the Taliban’s return to power, women and girls have been barred from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most jobs and even parks.
zantimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM
‘Everything we had, they took away’: how women are defying the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on protest
This report has been published in partnership with the @theguardian.com
zantimes.com/2025/12/29/e...
This report has been published in partnership with the @theguardian.com
zantimes.com/2025/12/29/e...
“I began fight for the right to education from inside my home”: Interview with Rahil Talash
zantimes.com/2025/12/17/i...
zantimes.com/2025/12/17/i...
“I began fight for the right to education from inside my home”: Interview with Rahil Talash
Rahil Ansari Talash was born in Balkh Province. She studied law and political science and began her professional career as a literacy teacher. Starting in 2014, she worked in the private banking secto...
zantimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“I began fight for the right to education from inside my home”: Interview with Rahil Talash
zantimes.com/2025/12/17/i...
zantimes.com/2025/12/17/i...
First published in 1967, Afghanistan in the Course of History was written by Mir Gholam Mohammad Ghobar, a historian, journalist, and political activist who played a leading role in the country’s democratic movement.
zantimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
zantimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First published in 1967, Afghanistan in the Course of History was written by Mir Gholam Mohammad Ghobar, a historian, journalist, and political activist who played a leading role in the country’s democratic movement.
zantimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
zantimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
When my husband proposed, he openly acknowledged he already had a wife and seven children. But my father was so happy to marry me to his friend that he didn’t care.
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When my husband proposed, he openly acknowledged he already had a wife and seven children. But my father was so happy to marry me to his friend that he didn’t care.
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
My father married me off with an old man for a promise of eye treatment
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
My father married me off with an old man for a promise of eye treatment
When he proposed, my husband openly acknowledged he already had a wife and seven children. But my father was so happy to marry me to his friend that he didn’t care. After I went to my husband’s house,...
zantimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My father married me off with an old man for a promise of eye treatment
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
New research documents ISKP’s deadly campaign against Hazara-Shia in Afghanistan
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New research documents ISKP’s deadly campaign against Hazara-Shia in Afghanistan
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
zantimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
Farida is a Ph.D. student at the University of Gilan in Iran and is researching Persian language and literature. She lives in Paris and has recently published two books: The Collector of Sorrows in French, and then The Love-Sorrow of Women in Persian.
zantimes.com/2025/12/08/i...
zantimes.com/2025/12/08/i...
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Farida is a Ph.D. student at the University of Gilan in Iran and is researching Persian language and literature. She lives in Paris and has recently published two books: The Collector of Sorrows in French, and then The Love-Sorrow of Women in Persian.
zantimes.com/2025/12/08/i...
zantimes.com/2025/12/08/i...
The police entered the park and stormed our sleeping places, beating and arresting us. Everyone was screaming. A seven-year-old child was kicked so violently that blood was pouring from his head and mouth.
zantimes.com/2025/12/06/t...
zantimes.com/2025/12/06/t...
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The police entered the park and stormed our sleeping places, beating and arresting us. Everyone was screaming. A seven-year-old child was kicked so violently that blood was pouring from his head and mouth.
zantimes.com/2025/12/06/t...
zantimes.com/2025/12/06/t...
As the world marks November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Afghan women have endured the worst forms of violence under the Taliban regime for more than four years.
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/12/03/t...
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/12/03/t...
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the world marks November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Afghan women have endured the worst forms of violence under the Taliban regime for more than four years.
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/12/03/t...
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/12/03/t...
My maternal cousin came to meet me outside my madrasa and offered to walk me home. We were both happy to see each other, unaware that this would be the last time we met as cousins. For the “crime” of talking and walking together, the Taliban arrested us.
zantimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
zantimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My maternal cousin came to meet me outside my madrasa and offered to walk me home. We were both happy to see each other, unaware that this would be the last time we met as cousins. For the “crime” of talking and walking together, the Taliban arrested us.
zantimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
zantimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
zantimes.com/2025/11/28/t...
zantimes.com/2025/11/28/t...
The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
A Facebook page called Poetry Club posted a memorial for Nadia Anjuman on November 5. In its introduction, it claimed she had “ended her life through suicide.” This is the third time I have read someo...
zantimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
zantimes.com/2025/11/28/t...
zantimes.com/2025/11/28/t...
‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering in Afghanistan
zantimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
zantimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering
I want to tell the story of my sister, Sakina. She is 31, two years younger than me. About nine years ago, we became brides at the same wedding ceremony on the same day. I married my cousin, while Sak...
zantimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering in Afghanistan
zantimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
zantimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
We are proud to announce that our colleague Sana Atef has received the 2025 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. At Zan Times, we are grateful to IWMF for recognizing the courage and work of our colleague.
Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
youtu.be/wZcvBdwrBFU?...
Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
youtu.be/wZcvBdwrBFU?...
Sana Atef: 2025 Courage in Journalism Award Winner
YouTube video by International Women's Media Foundation
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We are proud to announce that our colleague Sana Atef has received the 2025 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. At Zan Times, we are grateful to IWMF for recognizing the courage and work of our colleague.
Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
youtu.be/wZcvBdwrBFU?...
Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
youtu.be/wZcvBdwrBFU?...
Afghanistan is now a country where the youngest and poorest are trapped between hunger at home and violence on the streets. Child workers face arrest, forced labour, and the risk of disappearance in Taliban custody.
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Afghanistan is now a country where the youngest and poorest are trapped between hunger at home and violence on the streets. Child workers face arrest, forced labour, and the risk of disappearance in Taliban custody.
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Read more: zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
Haron was five years old when he began working on the streets of Kabul. Now 11, he sells socks from a woven basket and carries a small scale so people can weigh themselves. On a good day, he makes 200...
zantimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
zantimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
"I want to tell them I'll clean your school for free—just accept my son." A Zan Times report follows an Afghan mother's struggle to enroll her child in an Iranian school, revealing a system that denies kids education despite official referral letters.
zantimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
zantimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"I want to tell them I'll clean your school for free—just accept my son." A Zan Times report follows an Afghan mother's struggle to enroll her child in an Iranian school, revealing a system that denies kids education despite official referral letters.
zantimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
zantimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
The Zan Times editorial team apologizes to its readers for publishing this inaccurate information and reaffirms its commitment to preventing such errors in the future.
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Zan Times editorial team apologizes to its readers for publishing this inaccurate information and reaffirms its commitment to preventing such errors in the future.
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance.
zantimes.com/2025/11/10/l...
zantimes.com/2025/11/10/l...
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance.
zantimes.com/2025/11/10/l...
zantimes.com/2025/11/10/l...
What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation.
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation.
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
zantimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties: An interview with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
youtu.be/dO-n_4AFM7Y
youtu.be/dO-n_4AFM7Y
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
YouTube video by Zan Times
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties: An interview with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
youtu.be/dO-n_4AFM7Y
youtu.be/dO-n_4AFM7Y
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
zantimes.com/2025/10/31/n...
zantimes.com/2025/10/31/n...
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
zantimes.com/2025/10/31/n...
zantimes.com/2025/10/31/n...