FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC May 11, 2020 – During the last nights of Ramadan, the people of Palestine have faced brutal police violence in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli settlers using prejudicial courts are attempting to displace Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah from their homes. Israeli security and police forces have cracked down on protests violently storming one of the holiest…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2021 WASHINGTON D.C. — The Afghan Diaspora for Equality and Progress (ADEP) issued the following statement in response to an incident in Portland, Oregon: Various media reports describe a troubling incident from January 22 involving a man named Brian Christopher Miller, who brutally attacked and assaulted an Afghan American man in a Portland convenience store,…
The Afghan Diaspora for Equality and Progress is relieved at the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. But if we’ve learned anything from the past few months — through uprisings against racial injustice, through a global pandemic that has affected all of our lives, through a self-reckoning in our own community about our complicity in an unjust system — it’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 28th, 2020 WASHINGTON D.C. — The Afghan Diaspora for Equality and Progress (ADEP) issued the following statement in response to the incident that resulted in the death of George Floyd: “Yet again, we find ourselves horrified having to bear witness to police brutality in our country. Since Monday, reports and videos from Minneapolis recorded and exposed…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2020 We are angry. We are grieving. We are praying, yet again, for the lives lost to senseless violence. Innocent lives lost at a funeral ceremony in Nangarhar. Innocent lives, including 2 newborn babies, lost at a maternity clinic in Kabul. During the sacred month of Ramadan, in the midst of a pandemic, and two…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12th, 2020 WASHINGTON D.C. — The Afghan Diaspora for Equality and Progress (ADEP) issued the following statement in response to an incident in San Diego: Various media reports describe a troubling incident from February 26th involving a man named Robert Compton threatening to kill an Afghan refugee family, telling them “to go back to where you…
