Afghanistan: Amnesty: Prosecuting Taliban Human Rights Abuses
Afghanistan
Amnesty International: Prosecuting Taliban Human Rights Abuses
A woman walks past an armed Taliban fighter in Kabul. According to Amnesty International, the human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating rapidly. photo
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The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan since August 2021. The situation is precarious – Amnesty International documents mass murders of the Shia Hazara minority and women’s rights are virtually non-existent.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has the member states of the United Nations (UN) in view of the deteriorating human rights situation Afghanistan called to action.
The impunity of Taliban the London-based organization demanded an end on Monday. “It is time for the international community to turn its repeated public statements into concrete action,” said Amnesty Secretary-General Agnès Callamard.
“The human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating rapidly,” Callamard said. Every day the Taliban carried out “relentless abuses”. However, the Islamists are neither able nor willing to human rights violations pursue in their own ranks. Therefore, an independent control body must be set up in Afghanistan.
Since the return of the militants Islamists to power in August 2021, Amnesty documented arrests of women’s rights activists, journalists and civilians in Panjir province and mass killings of the Hazara Shia minority in three provinces. Detainees will be denied legal assistance and contact with their families, it said.
