A group of United Nations experts have expressed concern about the detention of women and girls in Afghanistan and have called for a halt to this process.
In a statement published on Friday, December 13, these experts called on the Islamic Emirate to stop arbitrarily depriving women and girls of their freedom and release the arrested persons immediately.
The UN experts, including Richard Bennett, the organization's special rapporteur on human rights affairs in Afghanistan, have asked the authorities of the caretaker government of Afghanistan to comply with Afghanistan's international obligations regarding human rights, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
In the statement of the UN experts, it is stated that the women and girls detained in the detention centers of the Islamic Emirate received only one meal a day and some of them were subjected to physical violence, threats and intimidation.
The statement also states: "Giving the responsibility of women's clothing to men violates women's agency and causes the institutionalization of discrimination and the continuation of control of women and girls by men and reduces their status in society."
The Islamic Emirate recently arrested a number of girls under the pretext of "bad hijab" in Kabul and some other cities of Afghanistan, including Daikundi, Bamyan and Balkh. According to the reports, the arrested girls were released after receiving guarantees from their families.
At the same time, Amnesty International has asked the Islamic Emirate to immediately release two education activists who were arrested in October last year.
In a letter to the Intelligence Department of the Islamic Emirate, this late organization wrote yesterday that Ahmad Fahim Azimi and Sediqullah Afghan have been falsely accused of helping the girls' national robotics team escape from Afghanistan and organizing protests.
Amnesty International also said that these two education activists and their families have denied these accusations.
This organization said that Fahim Azimi and Sediqullah Afghan were tried "unfairly" in December and then sent to Pol Charkhi prison.
Amnesty International called the arrest of these education activists an act against freedom of speech, civil and political rights and asked the head of the Islamic Emirate's intelligence to stop "kidnapping, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment" of people.
