Iranian Sunni Preacher Urged Taliban To Resolve Water Rights Issue of Iran

These prisoners entered Afghanistan via the Islam Qala border in Herat province.

The transfer of Afghan prisoners to the Taliban takes place at a time when according to the United Nations, Afghanistan’s judicial system has collapsed.

On the other hand, there is no oversight by human rights groups on the Taliban prisons, and numerous reports of death of people as a result of torture by the Taliban members have been published.

Over the past week, the Taliban also received 450 other Afghan prisoners from Iran.

The Taliban also prevented these families from filing a complaint with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

The Taliban killed the men and displayed their bodies to the public in Mazar-e-Sharif city on Wednesday. While on display, the Taliban published photos of the men holding weapons in their hands.

The group claimed that they killed the men due to their crimes of kidnapping and rebellion against the Taliban and said that they had been killed in a gunfight.

The families of the victims said that they seek justice, compensation, and restoration of their dignity and stressed that these men were unarmed.

The families of the victims added that the dead men were residents of poor areas of Kabul and had traveled to Mazar-e-Sharif to seek jobs.

The Taliban spokesperson has not reacted to these reports yet.

While the Afghan educational system has been on the verge of collapse and the Taliban have banned girls from secondary and high school, the group has continued to expand on establishing jihadist schools across the country.

The Taliban have announced that they will establish three to 10 jihadist schools in each district of Afghanistan.

These jihadist schools are religious seminaries that teach students Taliban’s version of religion and their teachings on jihad and other extremist religious issues.

It stated that if the Taliban’s policies are not reversed, the harmful effects of these reprehensible measures will be devastating and irreparable for Afghanistan’s economy and society.

The statement urged the Taliban to respect all people of Afghanistan, deliver on their commitments to the Afghan people and the international community, and reverse all decisions and practices restricting women’s and girls’ exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Afghan women and girls have been denied access to secondary education, to higher education, to public and political spaces, and to employment opportunities.

While calling attention to the situation in that country, it added that services for supporting victims of gender-based violence have been largely dismantled.

It emphasised that the signatory countries support the calls by the people of Afghanistan for women and girls’ full access to quality education at schools and universities and women’s unrestricted ability to work in all sectors, including humanitarian assistance and basic services delivery, equitable and comprehensive delivery of which is impossible without full participation of women.

The joint statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day had been issued on behalf of the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High Representative of the European Union.

The statement added that the world fears that the Taliban will implement further measures restricting women and girls’ exercise of civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights, with a dire impact on the future of Afghanistan and its people.

According to the Afghan Embassy in Italy, bodies of 48 people have been identified and death certificates have been issued for 46 people.

The Afghan embassy in Rome had earlier announced that 32 victims of the shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy were Afghan immigrants.

The embassy had estimated that 180 people were on board at the time of the incident.

The Taliban had previously issued a statement asking aid organisations to transfer the bodies of these victims to Afghanistan.

After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghan citizens have immigrated to different countries in the region and around the world.