UNAMA Asks Taliban To Provide Information on Whereabouts of Detained Rights Activists

According to Rawadari’s findings, "At least 210 people, mainly employees of security and defense institutions of the previous government; judges; defense lawyers; human rights defenders; people associated with popular uprisings; former employees of government and non-government institutions, and civilians accused of collaborating with the ISIS group, National Resistance Front and other groups opposed to the Taliban, have been systematically and purposefully killed and wounded by the Taliban.”

The findings of this report include human rights violations of Afghan citizens from August 15, 2021, to August 15, 2021.

Previously, the New York Times had reported that nearly 500 soldiers and employees of the former government had disappeared or had been killed by the Taliban in the first six months of their rule over Afghanistan.

Rawadari is a network of human rights activists that investigates and documents human rights violations in Afghanistan.

Shahrazad Akbar, the former head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, is the director of this newly established human rights organisation.

The Taliban spokesperson had previously said that two foreign citizens had been injured in the Monday attack.

A Telegram channel belonging to the ISIS group has claimed responsibility for the armed attack on the guest house of Chinese citizens in Kabul.

The Emergency Hospital had previously announced that three dead and 18 wounded people from the attack in Kabul had been transferred to the hospital.

However, the exact number of casualty due to this attack is not known yet.

Mujahed had also confirmed that two foreigners who had jumped out of the window of the guest house had been injured.

A guest house in which Chinese citizens had been staying came under attack by armed in Kabul on Monday.

So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

He said that two foreigners who had jumped from the window of the hotel have been wounded.

Armed men attacked a Chinese guest house on Monday in Kabul.

Photos from the scene of the attack received by Afghanistan International show that several men had jumped from the window of a high-rise building in Kabul.

Other pictures of flames coming out from the windows of this building have been published.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

Earlier, Reuters reported that gunmen had opened fire inside a building in Kabul where several foreigners have been living.

The Chinese embassy in Kabul has not commented on the attack so far.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted witnesses as saying that the sound of an explosion and shooting was heard near a famous Chinese guest house in Kabul.

"The explosion was very strong and then, there was a lot of gunfire," the witness told AFP.

There are no reports about the casualties of this attack and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.