Mawlawi Shamsuddin Shariati, the Attorney General of the Taliban, led a delegation to Tehran on Friday to meet Iranian officials. The Taliban announced on Friday that the delegation’s visit to Iran is to assess the condition of Afghan prisoners.
The Taliban’s director of prisons and the director of consular affairs of the Taliban's foreign ministry are also included in the delegation which has travelled to Tehran.
The Taliban had previously transferred groups of Afghan prisoners from Pakistani prisons to Afghanistan. There is no exact figure regarding the prisoners and their charges in Iran.
It is not known if these prisoners have been detained only for immigration issues. It is also not known what will these prisoners will face when they return to Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Currently, no independent human rights organisation can monitor the condition of Taliban prisons inside Afghanistan.
In the past few months, extensive reports of arbitrary arrests and brutal torture in Taliban prisons have been published in the Afghan media.
