Two women's rights activists missing in Afghanistan

 

Two more women activists went missing in Afghanistan this week. The Taliban are being accused of disappearing them and now the United Nations has sought information from the Taliban in this matter. With this, the number of women activists who suddenly disappeared in Afghanistan in 2022 has increased to four. It is being told that both these women have been taken into custody by the Taliban but these reports have not been confirmed. Meanwhile, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNMA) said it had sought "immediate information" from the Taliban. The organization said in a tweet, "The United Nations is reiterating the demand for the release of "missing" women activists and their relatives." Have respect.

"If the Taliban want recognition from the Afghan people and the world, they must respect the rights of the Afghan people and especially women," she wrote on Twitter. UNMA did not name the missing women, but another rights activist did. That the Taliban has arrested Zahra Mohammadi and Mursal Ayar. "Zahra is a dentist and works in a clinic. She has been arrested," the activist said on condition of anonymity. (Read: Afghanistan: Where to find abused women). He also told that Ayar was asked for his address by one of his male associates to pay him his salary and after that he was arrested from his house. He told, "This is how he was framed.

They were found and arrested by the Taliban." The missing activist He also told that Ayar's father has also been arrested. A few weeks ago activists named Tamannaah Jaryabi Parayani and Parwana Ibrahimkhel were also involved in a demonstration in Kabul. The United High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern for these women and four relatives of their families. All of them are still missing. The Taliban has said that it has no information about any of them. He has also said that he is investigating the matter.

(Read: Women in Afghanistan banned from traveling more than 72 km) After seizing power in the country in August 2020, the Taliban have taken strong measures against protests. Women's rallies were forcibly dispersed, critics were arrested and local journalists reporting on the demonstrations were beaten up. The Taliban have promised that the stringent Islamic laws they imposed during their first term between 1996 and 2001 will not be enforced this time. But soon after coming to power, women were banned from most government jobs and most of the girls' secondary schools were also closed. CK/AA (AFP).