Taliban Detains Former Security Forces Member In Panjshir
Sources told Afghanistan International that on Monday, Taliban intelligence agents "detained" Shams-ul-Haq Yousofi, a former security forces member, in the Dara district of Panjshir province.
It has been said that Yousofi had been living in Iran for some time and was recently "deported" to Afghanistan.
The motive behind his detention is not yet clear. However, earlier organisations and reliable media outlets had accused the Taliban of arresting, torturing and killing former security forces members of Afghanistan.
In September, Volker Türk, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, stated that despite the Taliban's declaration of a general amnesty, extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary arrests persist in Afghanistan.
Türk further emphasised that the UN has documented human rights violations committed against former government employees and security forces members.
On September 11, durning a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the UN, he said that with Taliban’s takeover of power, the group constituted “a systematic assault on the rights and freedoms of the population, which particularly targets women and girls”.
