The Taleban Government intensified its campaign against...

The Taleban Government intensified its campaign against Western aid organisations in Afghanistan, displaying an array of Bibles and Christian films which it said had been confiscated from charity workers expelled. Two groups, International Assistance Mission (IAM) and Serve, both much-respected aid groups, were given 72 hours to close their offices and leave the country.
The eight other foreign aid workers under trial for proselytising - Americans Heather Mercer and Dana Curry, Australians Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch and Germans Georg Taubmann, Silke Duerrkopf, Margrit Stebner and Kati Jelinek - may be questioned by the court in what Taleban officials call the second phase of the trial.