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30/11/2025

Condemning the Abduction and Detention of Seyed Sekandar Hosseini,Afghan Poet and cultural scholar !

Baamdaad -The House of Poetry in Exile strongly condemns the abduction and continued detention of Seyed Sekandar Hosseini, a poet and cultural scholar who according to credible reports has been held by Taliban forces for nearly a week.

The detention of Seyed Sekandar Hosseini is not merely the arrest of a poet; it is an assault on the culture, thought, and collective consciousness of a people for whom poetry is not only an art form but a way of living and a mode of resistance.
To imprison a poet is to sever a community’s bond with dreams, with freedom, and with humanity itself.

By banning poetry and art, enforcing censorship and repression, and abducting and detaining figures such as Seyed Sekandar Hosseini whose life’s work has been devoted to nurturing culture and art the Taliban once again demonstrate their enmity toward history, civilisation and culture and their fundamental incompatibility with human values.

We call upon all cultural and artistic institutions, defenders of freedom of expression, and human rights organizations to respond swiftly and decisively to this unlawful and inhumane act, and to take concrete steps toward the unconditional release of Seyed Sekandar Hosseini.

Baamdaad_ The House of Poetry in Exile stands in solidarity with Hosseini’s family, with Afghanistan’s cultural community, and with all those who continue to suffer from the ongoing wounding of this land’s cultural soul.

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31/08/2025

The Taliban have once again issued a decree banning the writing of poetry and love. This order is not only a blatant assault on freedom of expression, but also a direct attack on the language, culture, and identity of a people who have lived with poetry for centuries.

Baamdaad – The House of Poetry in Exile that was founded on January 15, 2022, in response to the Taliban’s first decree against poetry, and from the very beginning has stood firmly against censorship and repression. Today, once again, we openly condemn this inhuman order.

Taliban ideology stands in stark opposition to human values and fundamental freedoms. No human being, anywhere in the world, should be subjected to such a primitive and dehumanizing vision. The Taliban have turned Afghanistan into a prison where even the human heart is forbidden to beat with love. Such cruelty and backwardness must be condemned to extinction.

Baamdaad –The House of Poetry in Exile , calls on poets, writers, and artists around the world to stand with the people of Afghanistan. Through solidarity and collective voice, we must say “No” to censorship and oppression!
Throughout history, poetry has been the language of freedom, and today it must once again rise against tyranny, discrimination, and double standards. Freedom is the birthright of every human being, and the voice of freedom cannot be silenced by extremist decrees.

The poets, artists, and people of Afghanistan deserve to live with love and freedom. Poetry as an inseparable part of our millennia-old culture ,must not be banned, restricted, or censored by ignorant and extremist groups.
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