Taliban have detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, says US envoy

The Taliban has detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, said Senior US diplomat on Saturday, adding concern about the increasing number of people confiscated and held without limits in Afghanistan.

Rina Amiri, US special envoys for women, girls and Afghan rights, said that women were among the 40 people seized on Friday. “This unfair detention must stop,” he said in a tweet.

Since it has been removed, but another source confirmed that many women had been detained in Kabul. The Department of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the request to comment on why he was removed.

Earlier on Friday, the Taliban released a group of journalists including two foreigners, after news about their detention caused international anger. They also freed an activist who had disappeared after the protest of women’s rights, amid rising diplomatic pressure, including the Secretary General of the United Nations.

I was increasingly worried about the welfare of female activists who were lost in Afghanistan. Some ‘disappear’, some were not heard from within a few weeks, “said António Guterres on Twitter on Thursday.” I really urge the Taliban to ensure their salvation so they can return home. “

But other female activists, some of those kidnapped from their homes in the middle of the night were not released. The Taliban police and the Interior Ministry denied any role in their arrest.

Group rights groups criticized disappearances as intimidation campaigns, after the Taliban carry oppressive rules including restrictions on girls from secondary education, and women from most jobs outside the health and education sector.

“Every loss highlights one of the big gaps in Afghanistan today, a lack of legal rules,” said Heather Barr, director of women’s rights at Human Rights Watch.

This is not how you act when you try to become a government, and it highlights the ideals that they think they can kidnap women and carelessly deny it.”

There was also worries about Alia Azizi, a prison senior official who had been lost for more than four months after reporting work. Some women who work for security forces under the previous government have been attacked and killed since the Taliban in power.

While we welcome the liberation of Parwana, these families and others, including Alia, still detained,” Amiri said in her tweet.

None of them held had been charged with any crime, or able to contact lawyers or talk to their families.

The British government has also raised concerns about citizens who have been held for several months. Families of Peter Jouvenal entrepreneurs have become public with their concerns about their health since he was confiscated in December.

He married citizens of Afghanistan and was in Kabul to work and resolve family affairs. Friends worry about their health and safety; He needed medicine for high blood pressure and covid rampant in Afghanistan