Amnesty International calls for unconditional release of detained activists by Taliban

by Aamaj News

Amnesty International expressing its deep concern regarding the situation of detained activists by the Taliban called for immediate release of them.

“The recent wave of arrests of women human rights defenders in Afghanistan is yet another attempt to quell all forms of peaceful protests and any dissent against the Taliban’s oppressive policies that violate human rights, particularly of women and girls,” Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, said. “Such arrests will no doubt increase the environment of fear and reprisal in a continuing system of repression that goes unchecked.”

The news comes as Taliban recently arrested three prominent women human rights defenders Zarifa Yaqoobi, Farhat Popalzai and Humaira Yusuf and their colleagues, yet there is no information about their situation.

Taliban claimed that women had been ordered from outside the country, while Amnesty International rejecting this issue said that their deeds were within the framework of freedom of expression and peaceful protests.

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