{
  "dataset": "AHRC public aggregate — incident counts by province and by category",
  "version": "v2026.08.23",
  "generated_at": "2026-08-23T04:00:37+00:00",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "Afghanistan Human Rights Center (AHRC), Incident dataset v2026.08.23, retrieved 2026-08-23. Licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "caveat": "These are incidents AHRC has documented and corroborated. They are a LOWER BOUND: true numbers are higher, and documentation coverage varies by place and time (areas with more violence may produce fewer records, because collecting them is more dangerous). Do not read these counts as complete totals, and do not compare raw counts across provinces or time periods as if coverage were equal. Small cells (fewer than 10) are suppressed to protect the people involved, so province totals may exceed the sum of the published cells.",
  "suppression": "Published: by-province and by-category totals — the same aggregates already shown publicly on AHRC's site (map + violation-category breakdown), so nothing here is disclosed that isn't already public. Withheld: the province x category x year cross-tab, where any cell below 10 is omitted to protect the people involved (currently 0 publishable cell(s)).",
  "by_province": [
    {
      "province": "Kabul",
      "count": 9
    },
    {
      "province": "Herat",
      "count": 6
    },
    {
      "province": "Badakhshan",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "province": "Helmand",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "province": "Kandahar",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "province": "Khost",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "province": "(unspecified)",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "province": "Baghlan",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "province": "Balkh",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "province": "Parwan",
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "by_category": [
    {
      "incident_type": "arbitrary_detention",
      "category": "Arbitrary detention",
      "count": 8
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "armed_conflict",
      "category": "Armed conflict",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "civilian_casualties",
      "category": "Civilian casualties",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "enforced_disappearance",
      "category": "Enforced disappearance",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "discrimination",
      "category": "Discrimination",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "extrajudicial_execution",
      "category": "Extrajudicial execution",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "freedom_of_expression",
      "category": "Freedom of expression",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "human_dignity",
      "category": "Violation of human dignity",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "labor_rights",
      "category": "Labor rights",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "property_destruction",
      "category": "Property destruction",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "incident_type": "torture",
      "category": "Torture",
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "by_province_category_year": []
}