Whilst this dissent is somewhat unprecedented, persecution of the Hazaras in Afghanistan is anything but. The Hazaras have faced targeted persecution in Afghanistan for over a century.

Members of the Australian Hazara community are warning that any peace deal with the Taliban may see the fundamental principles of human rights vanish in Afghanistan as they call on both sides ...

Out of fear of persecution in Afghanistan, many Hazaras decided to cross the border to Pakistan. "Life under the Taliban felt like a prison, they didn't see us as Muslim, they called us infidels.

The Taliban recently "massacred" and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan, says human rights group Amnesty International. Witnesses have given harrowing accounts ...

The gruesome massacre of May 8 was sadly not an outlier. Afghanistan’s Hazaras are genuinely fearful for their lives. A wide array of causes has led to Pakistan adopting a decades-old policy of ...

Hazaras form a majority of the population in the central highland region of Afghanistan known as Hazarajat, and are a significant minority in the cities of Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif. 2 Most are ...

Hazara Community leader, Mohammadmir, spoke to SBS Dari about how his own fundraising back in Australia had led to his brother’s torture at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Shiite Hazaras turning to Taliban for protection indicates how terrified the community is of the Islamic State group, which they say aims to exterminate them.

The bodies that lie here are among the victims of a terrorist bombing on July 23 that targeted a protest by a minority group in the Afghan capital. The Hazaras had been demanding that electrical ...

KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the country has witnessed an increase in violence against the Shia and Hazara communities in the past month in the ...