Armanshahr Campaigns
Mohieddin Mahdi: “You do not have the right to breathe the air of this country”
Mohieddin Mahdi is a well-known politician, and a Member of Parliament. He was a member of the Northern Alliance in the 1980s and later the Deputy Ambassador of Afghanistan to Tajikistan.
Tuesday 25 February 2014Maria Bashir: “He threw my documents back in my face, and shouted: ‘Go and stay at home!’”
Maria Bashir is the Chief Prosecutor General of Herat province. She was the first woman to be appointed Chief Prosecutor in Afghanistan, and is the only woman serving as Chief Prosecutor in any of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.
Monday 24 February 2014Yassin Negah: “…. that she would give thanks a thousand times a day for being a woman”
Yassin Negah is the editor-in-chief of Porsesh [Question], a weekly magazine in Afghanistan, and the director of Writers Home, an association for young independent writers and poets.
Friday 21 February 2014Suraia Perlika: “We cannot trust our statesmen”
Suraia Perlika is an activist for human and women’s rights. She founded the Democratic Women’s Organization with five other women in 1965. In 1978, she was held as a political prisoner and tortured for her activities related to women’s rights.
Thursday 20 February 2014Sediqullah Towhidi: “We must guard vigilantly against a return to despotism”
Sediqullah Towhidi is the head of Nai [meaning: Flute], the leading non-government organization supporting open media in Afghanistan.
Wednesday 19 February 2014Khaleda Khorsand: “We should never be under the illusion that the Taliban’s return is impossible”
Khaleda Khorsand is a writer and human rights activist with the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat
Tuesday 18 February 2014Farid Mazdak: “The process of building a modern state in Afghanistan has only just begun”
Farid Mazdak is a well-known left-wing political activist. He was the leader of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan in the early 1980s and a leadership member of the Vatan party in the late 1980s.
Monday 17 February 2014Aziza Khayrandish: “If the price of peace is sacrificing justice… it will be catastrophic for the women of Afghanistan”
Aziza Khayrandish is a human rights activist and the director of the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat
Sunday 16 February 2014Mohammad Farid Hamidi: “Your children are the backbone of a strong and progressive Afghanistan”
A well-known lawyer in Afghanistan, Mohammad Farid Hamidi is Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where he has been a Commissioner for the past 11 years.
Thursday 13 February 2014Dr. Habiba Sarabi: “The existence of an independent Afghan identity fills me with joy”
Dr. Habiba Sarabi is the first and only woman to be appointed a provincial governor in Afghanistan: she served as the Governor of Bamiyan province from 2005 until 2013.
Wednesday 12 February 2014
