Tageszeitung, 21 August 2026
In this guest article for the German daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the participation, arrest, killing and executions of Afghans after the January protests in Iran, including the latest execution – one day before – of 20 year-old Qaem Hosseini in Isfahan, accused by the regime of involvement in the ‘Alikhani Square incident’, where demonstrators had set fire to a police station and killed four pro-government Basiji militiamen and special forces members. Thomas also looks at the general situation of Afghans, anti-Afghan discrimination and racism, the expulsion of more than 3 million Afghans since 2023 but also pro-regime Afghans, and he quotes some rare Iranian voice defending the Afghan migrants (in German).
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This article was last updated on 24 Aug 2026
