Voice of America's September 2021 report that the Taliban suspended Afghanistan's 2004 constitution after retaking power and announced it would govern instead under sharia law, provisionally applying articles of the 1964 monarchy-era constitution not in conflict with it, with no permanent constitution ratified since.
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Citation
AuthorVoice of America News staff
PublisherVoice of America
URLhttps://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-say-they-will-use-parts-of-monarchy-constitution-to-run-afghanistan-for-now/6248880.html
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier 3: contemporaneous news coverage of an unsettled, internationally unrecognized legal situation with no ratified constitution to cite as a primary text; used to document the fact of that unsettled status rather than to assert any formal instrument. Connections
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This source names Taliban directly: "September 2021 report that the Taliban suspended Afghanistan's 2004 constitution after retaking power and announced it would govern instead under sharia law, provisionally applying articles of the..."
Source Taliban Say They Will Use Parts of Monarchy Constitution to Run Afghanistan for Now (VOA News, 2021)Voice of America News staff
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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