By: Adela Azin
Translate by: Mohammad Sakhi Rezaie
The panic caused by the threat of the Taliban have made very women to not share their experience in the Taliban prisons. Those women and girls who have been released with bail of their families, and it is likely they may be detained again by the group. There is a potential threat and the violence machine of the Taliban has caused even those women who have left Afghanistan to keep silent and to not share their experience with the media; because their families are Afghanistan yet.
Above all, the human rights watch organization, has explained in details the experience of three women who had been detained and “they had undergone violent torture and misbehavior in the Taliban prisons”. The report concluded that the Taliban worked hard to stop women rights movement in Afghanistan.
Whaida Amiri, Somaia Shirzad, Morsal Ayar, Tmana Zaryab Pariani, Zarifa Yaqubi, Narges Sadat and tens of other women and girls have bitter experiences from the Taliban prisons. But they rarely share their experience with the media.
Taliban attacked on Balkh women’s rights protesters on September 7 and 8, 2021, in Mazar e Sharif and detained more than 70 women’s rights protesters including 40 girls. One week after this incident, the dead bodies of 8 of the detained protesters were discovered on the streets of Mazar e Sharif. The remaining protesters, boys and girls, were released after 45 days due to follow ups by their families; but there is no news from 9 of them yet while 5 girls were killed by their families after they were released. These cases were not shared with media and after 4 months some sources disclosed them.
In February of 2021, Taliban posted a video on social media showing they had prosecuted and detained 40 women’s rights protesters in a house. The video was posted on social media entitled “Confessions”. Some sources said about 29 women and children were among the detainees. Taliban had forced these women to confess and released after some days on bail and had threatened them to not part in the protests any more. As a result, they have taken in no protest to the moment and we also could not talk to them for this report.
Tamana Zaryab and her 3 sisters Zarmina, Kreshma and Shafiqa were detained in the night from their house by the Taliban and were released after 26 days and they finally they became refugees in Germany.
Parwana Ebrahim Khil was detained in February and was released in February 11.
Another women’s rights protester, Morsal Ayar, was detained in February 2, from her house Kabul.
Parwana Ebrahim Khil, Zahra Mohammadi and Morsal Ayar were consecutively released On Friday afternoon, in February 11.
Zahra Mohammadi , women’s rights protester and medical doctor, and the head of Women unity and solidarity team, was detained in February 3, from her clinic in Karte Parwan by the Taliban.
Zarifa Yaqubi had participated in the opening ceremony of a new women’s rights movement in November 3 and was detained along with four men and was released after forty days on November 12 2022.
Farhat Popalzai, another women’s rights protester, was detained on 8 December 2022 by the Taliban and was released after two months on * January 2022.
Homaira Yousuf, a human rights activist, was detained on November 10, 2022 from Abdullah Khil village in Panjshir.
Parisa Mobarez, Founder of Takhar women movement, was detained on 11 Februray 2022 from her house and was released on bail on 12 Februray 2022 and guarantee of the local influential leaders.
Narges Sadat was detained on on 12 Februray 2022 from Pul e Sorkh of Kabul by the Taliban.
According to Naji Hazara, a women’s rights protester, detention, torture and misbehavior women show the fundamentalist group of Taliban fear from women’s protests and voice. Violence, extra judicial detentions and courts, are all as tools to deprive women from their basic rights; freedom, work, and education in order to keep them illiterate and with no hope to future to obey the Talban as they wish.
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