The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

2 Most are Imami Shia Muslims, recognizing the leadership of ... in May 1997 of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners by ethnic Hazara and Uzbek forces, but there was also a sectarian component to the ...

Raza Jaghori from Hazara Hikers is a friend of Mr Nazari ... The Hazaras are an ethnic group of Shia Muslims originally from central Afghanistan, but have fled repeated persecution, including ...

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present this testimony on the critical issue of religious freedom in Afghanistan. The human rights of ...

The attack came after a relative lull in nearly a year of violence against the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority in the province.

ISIS-K, a Sunni extremist group established in 2015, has targeted Shi’ite Muslims in Afghanistan, particularly the Hazara ethnic minority. Afghanistan’s Shi’ite population constitutes around ...