Rights Group Seeks Immediate Release of Afghan Women Rights Activist From Taliban’s Prison

Freedom Now, a human rights organisation, called for the immediate release of Afghan women rights activist Zholia Parsi and her son from the Taliban prison.

On Thursday, the organisation reported that a week had passed since the Taliban forcibly detained this women's rights activist from her home in Afghanistan.

"We must not forget them and all other civic activists in Taliban's prisons," wrote Freedom Now on social media platform X.

Zholia Parsi, the head of the Spontaneous Movement of Women Protestors, had been detained from her house in Kabul with her child on September 27. Earlier, the Taliban had also detained Neda Parwani another member of the Spontaneous Movement of Women Protestors, from her house in Khair Khana area of Kabul. Parwani had also been detained along with her husband and child.

Zholia Parsi and Neda Parwani are members of a group of women's rights activists in Afghanistan who protested peacefully against the anti-women policies of Taliban since the group’s takeover of power in 2021.

During the past two years, the Taliban has continuously responded to the peaceful protests of women with violence, arrests and torture.