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Feb 2 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Today marks 500 days since the Taliban closed secondary schools for Afghanistan's teenage girls.

🧵This thread highlights reports and stories regarding secondary school students in #Afghanistan. (1/6)
(2/6) On March 23, 2022, the Taliban's U-turn to reopen girls' secondary #schools sparked outrage, with girls turned away at school gates. Videos of their distress spread rapidly online.

Read more in this report: ⬇️
afghanwitness.org/reports/online…
(3/6) Girls' secondary schools in #Afghanistan have been closed for 500 days, but teenage girls, with the help of international volunteers led by Angela Ghayour, are finding alternative ways to learn.

Read more in this report: ⬇️
afghanwitness.org/reports/afghan…
(4/6) #Afghan school teacher shares how the closure of girls' secondary schools has shifted her outlook on life.

Read more about Qamar's story:⬇️
afghanwitness.org/stories/qamar-
(5/6)Frozan only had 2 months left in 12th grade before the Taliban takeover in Aug 2021. Covid-19 had already impacted her education. Desperate to graduate, but doors remained closed for teenage girls across Afghanistan.

Read more about Frozan's story:⬇️
afghanwitness.org/stories/frozan-
(6/6) Afghan Witness continuously monitors the education system under the Taliban in #Afghanistan. We are using #OSINT methods and speak to sources on the ground with a strict anonymity policy regarding our sources.

For media inquiries: media@afghanwitness.org

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Feb 3
🧵The Taliban and Twitter Blue subscriptions | #OSINT

Afghan Witness found 13 Taliban-linked accounts with the blue tick, though several have since lost their mark of verification. (1/4) Image
On January 6, Afghan Witness detected that Hedayatullah Hedayat, the Taliban Head of Access to the Information Department, and 12 other #Taliban-linked accounts, had signed up for the Twitter Blue service. (2/4)
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🧵One year on: Afghanistan’s education sector under the Taliban, a thread

Since the #Taliban’s return last August, the group has demonstrated determination to regulate, shape, and control access to #education in #Afghanistan… Image
The Taliban’s U-turn on girls’ secondary #schools in March attracted widespread condemnation.

The Ministry of #Education announced that the schools would remain closed until a policy was formulated in accordance with “Sharia and #Afghan” culture...
#OSINT | A video published by Aamaj News on March 23 shows girls arriving and gathering outside Zulaikha Female High School in #Kabul whilst Taliban men stood at the door, preventing them from entering: Image
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Aug 2, 2022
1/7 #OSINT geolocation of drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Al Zawahiri in #Kabul, a #thread:

2 images posted shortly after the incident provide different perspectives, allowing us to get a strong idea of the area (Photo 1; Photo 2).

Images geolocated to Sherpur PD10:
2/7 Pinpointing the house is difficult. The only close up photos are all from the same angle, with limited clues besides the shape and facade of the building, and the fact there is no building behind it.
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🧵#Thread | Reported closures of women-run restaurants in Herat

On 30 May 2022, @HashteSubhDaily reported that the Taliban closed women's restaurants in #Herat.

AW followed up with sources on the ground to find out more... (1/5)
▪️Sources in Herat say that the DPVPV has closed some 10 women-run restaurants in the province.

▪️They say the restaurants have been closed since the last week of May. (2/5)
▪️According to AW sources, authorities ordered managers to close the restaurants as they were not in compliance with Islamic rules and principles, but no further details were given on why the women-run restaurants are considered un-Islamic. (3/5)
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May 16, 2022
#AFG | Knock-on Impacts of Restrictions Against Women

In #Samangan province, Tahminah Women's Park & Marketplace has become inactive due to increasing #poverty and #unemployment rates, and Taliban restrictions on women's freedom of movement (1/11)

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On 14 May, the Afghan newspaper Hasht e Subh Daily reported on its website that the Taliban closed a park and women's market in Samangan.

The park was the only recreation facility and marketplace for women and girls in the province. (2/11)

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AW followed up on this news with a number of sources on the ground, including a former employee of the department of women's affairs, a local journalist, and a civil #activist in Samangan in order to find out more. (3/11)
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Apr 22, 2022
#Afghanistan has seen a string of attacks this week in Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz, and Nangarhar.

Attacks in Kabul & Mazar saw #Hazaras targeted.

🧵AW #OSINT verifications so far:
(1/8) On the morning of April 19, a series of explosions targeted educational institutions in Dasht-e-Barchi, #Kabul - an area with a predominantly #Hazara Shia population.

✅AW verified the attack at Abdul Rahim Shahid High School

🗓️ April 19
📍Dasht-e Barchi, Kabul
(2/8) The next day, an explosion occurred at the front of Kandahari market in Kabul, where a Taliban-operated vehicle was targeted.

ISKP claimed the attack.

✅AW verified the incident

📅April 20
🕐Shortly after noon
📍Qua-e Markaz, Kabul
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