who captured the power in Afghanistan the Militants “Taliban” (a terrorist organization forbidden in Russia) began to pursue local LGBT activists. About this head of human rights NPO Rainbow Railroad Kimali Powell spoke in an interview with the Sun newspaper.
Human rights defenders became known that the Taliban amounted to the “execution list of representatives of the LGBT community. In confirmation of this multiple members of Rainbow Railroad from Afghanistan, they came to email letters. They contained the requirements to confirm participation in NGOs and provide passport data.
To one of the LGBT activists, armed men came to the house without identifying signs. They searched the dwelling and found confirming the participation of a citizen in Rainbow Railroad. Then the militants began to beat and humiliate their victim, and also burned her passport.
Powell noted that the personal data of the employees of its NGOs and other related human rights groups of the Taliba received after the fall of Kabul in August 2021. According to him, the terrorists compiled a list of people who are unwanted by him, having received information about people whom international organizations have tried, but could not evacuate from Afghanistan.
The fact of the having the Taliban of such information greatly complicates the evacuation of the LGBT activists, Powell curled. He noted that the locals began to convey to minority representatives, fearing the repressions by the militants. From the moment of falling Kabul, NPO Rainbow Railroad received 700 evacuation requests, 200 of which identified how the most critical.
Since the arrival of the Taliban in Afghanistan, there are reports of violation of human rights from the country. On September 13, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michel Bachelet at the conference in Geneva stated that the militants violated all public promises to protect the rights of Afghan citizens. According to her report, the UN regularly receives reliable information about the sprauls, persecution and threats in Afghanistan.