These arrests occur two weeks after the disappearance of two other critical activists towards Islamist fundamentalists.
Le Monde with AFP
The United Nations (UN) have publicly requested, Thursday, February 3, Talibans to provide information about the supposed arrest of two feminist activists in Afghanistan. These arrests occur two weeks after the disappearance of two other critical activists towards Islamist fundamentalists.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) asked Twitter “Urgent information” to the Afghan Ministry of the Interior, “About the last arrests by the Taliban of two new feminist activists reported in the latter twenty-four hours “. The United Nations “repeat their appeal to relax all feminist activists” disappeared “, as well as their relatives,” added the institution.
Urgent Information SOUGHT FROM @Moiafghanistan Today by Unama on Latest Reported Detensions Over Last 24hrs by The … https://t.co/pgt4o37hp3
– Unamanews (@unama news) Tweeted Friday The US emissary for rights Afghan women, Rina Amiri.
The Manua did not reveal the names of the two activists, but according to another opponent attached by the France-Press agency (AFP), it is Zahra Mohammadi and Mursal Ayar.
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Zahra is “dentist and worked in a clinic. She was arrested, as his father,” said this activist by claiming anonymity. Mursal was arrested on Wednesday, after one of his colleagues asked him to provide his address for him to give him his salary, “she added. “That’s how it was trapped. The Taliban found it and stopped it,” said this militant again.
Two weeks ago, two other activists, Tamana Zaryabi Payani and Parwana Ibrahimkhel, disappeared a few days after participation in a demonstration in Kabul for women’s rights. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had expressed his concern on their fate and four members of their families who disappeared with them. The Taliban deny any involvement in their disappearance and say they have opened an investigation.
Islamist fundamentalists have been modernizing since their last reign on Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001. But after their return to power, in August, the Taliban were quick to oust teenage girls many colleges and Public high schools, to impose women with the accompaniment of a man of their family near during long trips, and to exclude them from most public jobs.
Faced with the deep humanitarian crisis that strikes Afghanistan, Westerners have erected respect for human rights in prerequisite for a possible return of international aid, which represented 75% of the Afghan budget before the advent of the Taliban .