After Several Hours of Detention, Taliban Releases Afghan Women Protesters in Kabul

Zahra Haqparsat, a leader of the Afghan Women's Unity and Solidarity Movement, announced that the Taliban released eight members of this group after several hours of detention.

The Taliban forces arrested these women on Sunday evening for planning an in-house protest in Khair Khana area of Kabul.

Haqparast said on social media platform X that the movement’s members had been released due to the "united advocacy” of Afghan citizens.

She expressed hope that "there will be no harm to the protesters and their families”.

It is not known which agency of the Taliban had arrested these women activists.

Khalid Zadran, the spokesman of the Taliban Police in Kabul, denied the arrest of these protesters.

A member of the movement told Afghanistan International that the Taliban surrounded the house in which the women activists had gathered and entered it to arrest the activists.

According to Afghanistan International’s source after being suppressed by the Taliban, women protesters have shifted to in-house movements, but it seems that the Taliban can now infiltrate these places too.