GENEVA – The U.N. human rights chief on Friday referred to as on Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities to launch 5 individuals the U.N. says had been detained throughout a information convention organised by a ladies’s civil society organisation.
Police disrupted a information convention in Kabul on Thursday supposed to launch a brand new ladies’s motion referred to as ‘Afghan Girls’s Motion for Equality’, the U.N rights workplace stated.
A feminine activist, Zarifa Yaqobi, and 4 male colleagues had been arrested. The opposite feminine individuals within the room had been additionally quickly detained and topic to telephone and physique searches, earlier than being launched, it added.
“We're involved concerning the welfare of those 5 people and have sought data from the de facto authorities relating to their detention,” stated U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk through a spokesperson at a Geneva information briefing.
A Taliban spokesperson didn't instantly present a remark and stated he would look into the matter.
Rights teams say ladies’s freedoms in Afghanistan have been undermined for the reason that Taliban seized energy in August 2021 as worldwide forces backing a pro-Western authorities pulled out. They level to new curbs on their garments, motion and schooling regardless of earlier Taliban vows on the contrary.
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