The Silk Way Weekly: The relatives of Mrs. Mehtab Hamdard, a former criminal employee and police officer in Daikundi Women’s Prison, told the Silk Road Weekly that the Taliban intelligence arrested her for the second time from her home in Ghazni city at night and transferred her to an unknown place.
The relatives of Mrs. Mehtab Hamdard, Today, Wednesday, on 17 May 2023, Told the SWW that for the first time the Taliban intelligence had arrested her before Eidul Fitr, but she had been released based on local leaders’ arbitration for Eid days; But a few days after Eid, the Taliban intelligence raided Mrs. Hamdard’s house again at night and arrested her.
Ms. Hamdard’s relatives told that “Taliban raided Hamdard’s house at 10: PM and have knocked on the door; but nobody opens the door in order to help Ms. Mhatab flee. As a result, she has hidden in a bathroom. Taliban fired a bullet at the window. “Finally, one of the men wants to open the door, and they break the lock of the door and entered the house.”
After Taliban broke into the house, they beat the man and tie his hands behind his back and turn off the light. “One of the Taliban, with a photo in his hand, was shining a light on the faces of each woman to find the Ms. Hamdard; But Hamdard was not among them. One of them said: Search anywhere! Finally, they found her in the bathroom and took hwer away handcuffed.”
Relatives of Ms. Hamdard, expressing concern, say the intelligence of Taliban has denied her arrest so far.
Hamdard’s family says that the Taliban did not say anything about her whereabouts when she was arrested the first time. But later it became clear that she was in the detention center of the Taliban’s intelligence.
Mrs. Hamdard was one of the officials of Daikundi women’s prison during the last years of Ashraf Ghani’s government and after the Kabul takeover she lived secretly in Kabul for a while. But after she was fed up with living secretly, she joins the women’s rights protesting groups against Taliban. When the environment of activity in Kabul is limited to women, she moved to Ghazni city with other members of her family. In Ghazni, this is the second time she has been arrested by the Taliban.
There have been numerous reports on Taliban’s detention centers showing the violent behavior and extra judicial treatment of the Taliban with the prisoners.
Similarly, in the past year and a half, reports of sexual assault and excruciating torture of female prisoners by Taliban forces have also been published.
Based on these reports, Ms. Hamdard’s family say they are worried about her health and mental condition. Relatives of Mrs. Hamdard’s still claim that she has a two-month-old baby in her womb.
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