Rukhshana Media

Rukhshana Media (Dari: رسانه رخشانه) is an Afghan women's media organisation[1] created in November 2020 in memory of Rukhshana,[2] a young woman stoned to death in 2015 in Ghor Province for having fled with a lover after a forced marriage.

[3] Rukhshana Media was created in November 2020 by Zahra Joya to focus on stories by and about Afghan women.

[4] Themes published by Rukhshana Media include "women's reproductive health, domestic and sexual violence, and gender discrimination".

According to the report, only girls up to the age of 12 were allowed to attend school, they were required to wear niqābs or burqas, and the number of hours teaching the Quran was increased.

[1] On 15 August 2021,[7] the date of the Fall of Kabul, Rukhshana Media announced its plans to launch a version of its news website in English, in addition to its existing Dari reports.