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12/10 قتلى في هجوم على مسجد شيعي خلال احتفالات عاشوراء في كابول: قتل 14 شخصا على الأقل وجرح عشرات آخرون، في إطلاق نار نفذه مسلحون على شيعة كانوا متجمعين قرب حسينية لإحياء ذكرى عاشوراء، غرب العاصمة الأفغانية وقرب جامعة كابول حيث يعيش عدد كبير من أفراد الأقلية الشيعية. وخلف إطلاق …
Read More »Letter to Embassies for Muharram 2016: “Make Brotherhood and Non-Violence your New Year’s Resolutions”
As Muharram is approaching, Shia Rights Watch writes to embassies to ask for protection of Shia Muslims during their Ashura gatherings. Muharram is the first month of Islamic year when many celebrate New Year and many others postpone their celebrations in order to commemorate the death of a peacekeeper, Husain. …
Read More »Advocacy for Hazara Minority at the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
In advocacy effort for Hazara minority, the following statement was presented by SRW at the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva Dear esteemed colleagues and member states, The protection of ethnic minorities is a priority for Shia Rights Watch. The Afghan Hazara minorities who are frequently persecuted as …
Read More »Shia News Wire # 82
August 26th to September 2nd/2016 Iraq Baghadad and Madaen continue to have the highest Shia fatality rate as 37 Shia were killed due to IED and 5 bodies found. The deadliest suicide bombing of the week killed 23 in Ain al- Tamur, a town 40 kilometers west of the city of Karbala on August …
Read More »Incidents of Anti-Shiism in August, 2016
Incidents of Anti-Shiism in August, 2016 This monthly report will analyze the data compiled on Shia deaths, injuries, and arrests that occurred between August 1st and 31st, 2016. This month there were 334 deaths, and 67 wounded in the Shia community. Also 47 to 50 cases of arrest were reported. …
Read More »Shia News Wire # 81
August 20th to 26th Afghanistan, Shia Muslim continue facing anti-Shiism with no protection from the government. A Shia cleric, Yonus Alawi, was got to death while returning from daily prayer at local mosque in Harat. According to local Afghan media sources Taliban beheaded a Hazara, Khair Mohammad, student of Faryab …
Read More »Breaking news from Afghanistan, Taliban Attacks Sangcharak
Taliban’s ongoing attack to Shia Sangcharak in Afghanistan that started on August 24th, resulted in killing of 13 so far. Women and children escaping from the area as their men are protecting the city. Activists report as many as 3000 Taliban soldiers attacked the Shia dense area of Sangcharak yesterday …
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23/8 هجوم واسع تشنه طالبان على مدينة شيعية: شن تنظيم طالبان الإرهابي هجوماً على منطقة سنگچارک في شمال أفغانستان والتي يقطنها الشیعة، وأسفر الهجوم عن ١٣ قتيلاً عدا الجرحى، ولا تزال المعارك مستمرة ولكن صمود الأهالي بمعونة الجيش حال دون اقتحامها. وقد فرت نساء الشيعة من تلك المنطقة الی الجبال قبيل …
Read More »Violence towards Shia Clerics Spreads to Afghanistan
Shia Rights Watch is concerned about sudden increase of violence toward Shia clerics in Afghanistan as Afghan authorities arrested Sheikh Ghorban Gholampour, a Shia cleric, for unspecified reasons. Last week Sheikh Younes Alawi was killed in Harat as he was returning from prayers at night. Afghan Shia have been under …
Read More »International Religious Freedom 2015 Report with Shia Rights Watch summary
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor International Religious Freedom released their 2015 Report on August 10th detailing human rights violations, including some of what Shia face around the world. At Shia Rights Watch (SRW) we welcome this report and the attention given to the important issue of human right. …
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