The Rawadari Human Rights group released a report Monday alleging the arbitrary detention of nearly 2,000 in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan between the time frame of August 2021–the time when the fundamentalist group’s takeover of Kabul was confirmed–and November 2022.
«The violation of the right to liberty and security of persons is one of the main challenges and concerns in Afghanistan under the de facto Taliban regime. These detentions have created an atmosphere of terror and fear among Afghan citizens,» the report has highlighted.
At least 1,976 people have been irregularly detained in as many as 29 provinces of Afghanistan, including 136 women and four minors. Most of the victims are former government employees, activists, journalists, religious scholars, minorities and human rights defenders.
Among the detainees, the report lists, there are also women protesting for the recovery of their rights and civilians accused of being linked to the National Resistance Front resistance.
These arrests take place in a context of legal vacuum, in which citizens do not know which previous laws are in force, which are being respected and which have been repealed. The opacity and restrictions on access to information, he laments, makes it more than likely that the number of arrests will be even higher.
While waiting for the Taliban to comment on this latest report, on previous occasions and in the face of similar work carried out by human rights organizations and even the United Nations, they have dismissed these accusations.
Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan with the lightning seizure of Kabul in August 2021, the few advances and rights that Afghan women had achieved were taken away from them, despite the promises they made not to return to the kind of policies they applied in the 1990s.
Since then they have enacted new laws to prevent access to education for girls and women, as well as other measures that prevent them from having freedom of movement, or even working in humanitarian agencies, on which almost the entire Afghan population depends.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
