Roza Otunbayeva, the special representative of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan, announced that the “Taliban” movement, which seized power in the country, started arresting Afghan women for not fulfilling the decree on wearing the hijab. It was reported by “Interfax” agency.
“The de facto authorities of Afghanistan have recently further restricted women’s rights in all spheres of public life. Women who are deemed to partially comply with the hijab-wearing decree are subject to arrest and detention. Individual Afghan women are afraid to go out into the street,” said Otunbayeva, appearing before the members of the UN Security Council.
In early January, the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Immorality, created by the Taliban, began to actively enforce the hijab by 2022. decree issued in April, arresting and detaining women and girls who do not comply with it. These arrests were disproportionately spread to urban women.
“Recently, arbitrary arrests for alleged violations of the Islamic dress code have become a further violation of human rights and led to untold stigmatization of women and girls,” Otunbayeva said.
He called on Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to lift the restrictions, noting that “the longer they are in place, the more damage they will do.”
According to the UN, many women and girls were arrested in Kabul and remained in custody for several hours. The organization’s representation recorded allegations of harsh treatment, incommunicado imprisonment and demanding a ransom for release.
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