Atalayar, 8 November 2022 This analysis of the anti-Taleban uprising of erstwhile pro-Taleban (then killed) Hazara commander Maulawi Mehdi from Balkhab quoted from various AAN analyses authored by Thomas Ruttig (in Spanish).
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Politiken, 28 November 2022 The leading danish daily newspaper reports about a panel organised by the Danish Refugee Council in Copenhagen about the current political and human rights situation in Afghanistan, in which AAN’s Ehsan Qaane and Thomas Ruttig, the UN human rights rapporteur for Afghanstan, Richard Bennett, and migration scholar Liza Schuster participated (in […]
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SRF, 17 November 2022 Listen to the audio of Swiss radio interviewing AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the situation of women’s rights, the implementation of sharia punishments and other latest events in Afghanistan (in German).
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Tageszeitung, 16 November 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports that the Taleban leader has order the countrywide implementation of sharia-based hudud, qisas and other punishments, that at least six women rights activists are held by the Taleban and that, according to reports from Afghanistan, a young women condemned to stoning had committed ‘suicide’ under suspicious circumstances.
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Tageszeitung, 10 November 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports (in German) about the latest arrests of women activists, including males, by Taleban forces at a Kabul press conference convened to announce the start of a new rights movement.
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Lawfare (blog), 24 October 2022 In this blog entry, USIP’s Bill Byrd, also occasional AAN guest author, quotes a “recent report from the Afghanistan Analysts Network admit[ting] that the Taliban’s collection of large amounts of revenue is unlikely to translate into some kind of ‘social contract’ whereby much of the money is returned in the form […]
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RND, 13 October 2022 This German media article quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German), ahead of a key session of the German parliament’s investigation committee on the country’s part in the US-led Afghanistan mission. saying that the German government had, over many years, consciously and systematically mislead the public by sugarcoating its own ‘successes’. This […]
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Debatte zu Dritt, 7 September 2022 In this podcast hosted by Swiss ex-diplomat Tim Guldimann, award-winning German journalist Katrin Eigendorf and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig debate the West’s Afghanistan debacle in mid-2021 and what ld to it (in German).
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Tageszeitung, 2 September 2022 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the killing, by a suicide bomber, of prominent Herato pro-Taleban cleric, Maulawi Mujib-ul-Rahman Ansari (in German).
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Tageszeitung, 1 September 2022 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily reporting the damage by recent flooding in large parts of Afghanistan and the international discussion whether or how to aid Afghanistan under the Taleban (in German).
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WeltTrends, August 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig takes stock of Afghanistan’s political, socio-economic and security situation one year after the Taleban’s second takeover of power for the Potsdam-based foreign policy journal (in German, behind a paywall: €1.50).
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The New Yorker, 24 August 2022 AAN research, on the debate in th international aid community about ‘working with’ or isolating the Taleban, is quoted briefly in this article: In July, a report by Afghanistan Analysts Network found that aid organizations have scaled back their activities because of funding shortfalls, and that donors are concerned […]
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