The self-immolation occurred Sunday on the same day that the woman was allegedly to be taken to the brother of local Taliban commander in Ghor, sources said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, sources said the commander Haji Mohammad Rahmani planned to take a young woman named Abida from Taywara’s village of Darzab Nili to his brother, Mohammad Azim.
The commander arrived in the village on Sunday and, with his forces, allegedly detained Abida’s father and brother, taking them from the home to the local mosque. Abida’s father rejected Haji Rahmani’s claim that Abida was promised to his brother when she was two years old, saying he made no such promise and that his daughter was not willing to marry Mohamad Azim.
A young woman has died after setting herself on fire in Taywara district of Ghor province in an alleged attempt to escape a forced marriage, local sources told Rukhshana Media.
Abida allegedly set herself on fire inside the house while some of the commander’s forces were outside the house, sources said.
In a video obtained by Rukhshana Media, a completely-burned body can be seen, but is unrecognizable.
According to the sources, local Taliban courts in Ghor and Kandahar had previously ruled that the commander’s claim to Abida was baseless, but Haji Rahmani continued to threaten Abida’s father, saying he would take her to his brother by force if consent was not granted.
No official investigation has been launched, according to sources, with Taliban authorities in Ghor not discussing the incident nor holding the commander and his brother for questioning.
Rukhshana Media has made repeated efforts to contact the young woman’s family but had not received a response at the time of publication.
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena who in 1987 was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents….فارسی | Japanese | French | Español | Italiano | Deutsch | Greek | Português
“Italy: Absolution of the anarchists accused in the trial for the publication of ‘Bezmotivny’ magazine. An 8 month sentence for offense to the honour or prestige of the president of the republic”
Two year persecution to stop us reading resistance news / SOLIDARITY WITH GAIA, GINO, LUIGI, PAOLO AND ALL THE COMRADES INVESTIGATED
On April 8th, 2025, the sentence was finally pronounced in the trial in Massa against four anarchist comrades indicted for the publication of the internationalist anarchist fortnightly ‘Bezmotivny’ (repressive operation on August 8th, 2023).
The defendants – who were involved in the operation together with six other comrades for whom the proceedings remained at the investigation stage – were charged with incitement to commit crimes and apologia of crimes and offences of terrorism for the publication of the about sixty issues of ‘Bezmotivny’, and of offence to the honour or prestige of the president of the republic (art. 278, penal code), concerning a specific article (‘Soffiare sul fuoco’, published in ‘Bezmotivny’, year I, issue 17, October 25th, 2021).
All the defendants were acquitted of the charge of multiple aggravated incitement to commit crimes ‘because the fact does not exist’, whereas Luigi was sentenced to eight months, without the application of recidivism, for offending the honour or prestige of the president of the republic (the other three defendants were acquitted of this charge ‘for not having committed the fact’).
The request for compensation by the State attorney’s office was also denied.
At the end of the indictment held at the previous hearing on April 1st, public prosecutor Manotti of the DDAA (‘Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism District Directorate’) of Genoa had requested 7 years’ imprisonment for Gino, 6 years for Luigi (with the revocation of the suspended sentence for a previous conviction imposed on him by the court of Ravenna) and 5 years and 6 months each for Gaia and Paolo, while the State attorney for the presidency of the council of ministers had requested compensation of half a million euro.
Operation ”Scripta Scelera” against the fortnightly “Bezmotivny”: first initiatives in solidarity, a brief update, some observations… * from initial report in August 2023
In the early morning of Tuesday, August 8th 2023, a repressive operation – ridiculously named Scripta Scelera (these fine people always come up with some “ambitious” or suggestive name for their operations) [Latin: “written crimes”] – was unleashed by the State’s repressive apparatus in various Italian cities.
It was aimed at shutting down the anarchist internationalist fortnightly magazine “Bezmotivny”, thereby striking the action of publication of analysis and reflection as well as, and in particular, texts claiming actions, sabotage and initiatives of attack undertaken by anarchists and revolutionaries throughout the world against the State and capital.
Let’s take a brief look at the facts.
Mainly involving anarchist comrades in Carrara and the “Gogliardo Fiaschi” Anarchist Cultural Circle, the operation consisted of notification of an investigation against 10 comrades, all of whom were subjected to house searches (as well as that against the above-mentioned anarchist circle), and significant seizures of newspapers and various publications.
Concerning the 10 under (for whom Genovese public prosecutor Manotti twice requested their arrest in prison), the judge for the preliminary investigations ordered house arrest with all restrictions (including electronic ankle bracelets, which were not applied due to lack of the necessary equipment) for four of the comrades, a night curfew from 19.00 to 7am for another five, while one comrade had no restrictions (at the police station they notified him of a two years’ compulsory expulsion order from the province of La Spezia).
One of the comrades under house arrest was initially taken to prison on order of the same prosecutor, due to the fact that he did not have a certificate of residence.
In the context of the operation, a printing press in Avenza, where the paper had recently been printed, was also shut down (and later re-opened)….. * from initial report in August 2023
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In a single day, the Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed 92, including 60 in Gaza City alone.
The death toll from the massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation in its bombing of the vicinity of a Thai Restaurant on al-Wehda Street and surrounding area in the al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, has risen to 33 martyrs, with more than 86 others injured so far, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported.
Earlier, the Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed that in 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza received 38 martyrs, including four of whom were retrieved from under the rubble, in addition to 145 injuries.
8 May 2025 By Al Mayadeen English
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Our correspondent added that a total of 92 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday, including 60 in Gaza City alone.
بائع القهوة الصغير لم ترحمه صواريخ الحرب انسكب دمه وقهوته وزبائنه من المارة ضمن مجزرة قرب مطعم التايلندي بغزة . لا رحمة ولا إنسانية pic.twitter.com/reG8ZItUBO — غــادةٌ🌻🇵🇸 (@gh_shihada) May 7, 2025
In its latest report, the ministry announced that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has reached 52,653 martyrs, while the number of wounded has reached 118,897 since October 7, 2023.
Since March 18, the casualty toll has reached 2,545 martyrs and 6,856 wounded, according to the ministry’s report. Related News Israeli military avoids calling up unwilling reservists: Haaretz Al-Qassam ambushes 2 IOF units in Gaza, inflict heavy casualties
Read more: UN rights chief warns of escalation in Gaza, urges immediate ceasefire ‘Israel’ deliberately targeting civilian gatherings
Hamas, in a statement, affirmed that the Israeli occupation is deliberately targeting civilian gatherings, including shelters, displacement centers, and food distribution points, as part of a systematic genocide aimed at causing the highest possible number of civilian casualties and breaking the will of the Palestinian people through killing, starvation, and siege.
The group called for “urgent and serious international action to halt this criminal campaign and to deter the terrorist occupation government, which continues to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing amid a troubling international silence.
Hamas also urged the masses across the Arab and Islamic worlds, as well as all free people globally, to “intensify popular mobilization by all possible means” in support of the Palestinian people’s resilience, in rejection of genocide and starvation, and in demand for holding Israeli leaders accountable as war criminals before international courts. International silence emboldens ‘Israel’
On its part, the Palestinian al-Mujahideen Movement stated that the latest massacre committed by the Israeli occupation reflects “a blatant disregard for the world, international organizations, and international resolutions, particularly the decision of the International Criminal Court.”
The movement condemned the international silence, complicity, and Arab abandonment in the face of Israeli crimes, stressing that this has “emboldened the occupation to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and to tighten the brutal blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
It also held the US administration fully responsible for all Israeli crimes, calling on Palestinian Resistance fighters to escalate their top-tier and painful strikes against the occupation and its settlers.
The extreme right racist Israeli regime is deliberately starving over 2,000,000 Gaza civilians, half of them children, to an agonising death.
The neo-Nazi rulers have not allowed any goods to enter Gaza now for more than 60 days, while daily bombing homes schools, camps and hospitals in the open air prison…..
… by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar. com, May 7, 2025
The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a US-based charity, said on Wednesday that it was forced to shut down aid operations in Gaza due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Victory Day in Russia. It’s an annual holiday, of course, with a big parade.
But this year is special.
As the war continues, Zelensky has more or less threatened the participants with some kind of terror attack, probably involving drones bombing Red Square.
We unequivocally condemn all sections—be they in politics, media, or elsewhere—who are beating the drums of war and stoking hatred between two peoples with shared histories, cultures, and struggles.
The Free 