The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has stated it was “deeply involved” by “current arbitrary arrests and detentions” of Afghan ladies, accused of flouting hijab guidelines set by Taliban authorities.
The Afghan authorities shortly dismissed the assertion from the UN Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as “propaganda”.
Media studies and social media posts in current days have stated ladies had been detained by Taliban authorities for not carrying correct hijab, as per a decree calling for girls to be coated completely besides for his or her fingers and eyes, although many ladies nonetheless exit within the capital Kabul with out overlaying their mouths.
UNAMA stated in a press launch it had documented “a sequence of campaigns” by police and the Ministry for the Propagation of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice over hijab since 1 January in Kabul and the central Daykundi province.
It added it was probing “allegations of ill-treatment and incommunicado detention” in addition to the concentrating on of non secular and ethnic minority teams.
“UNAMA fears the present crackdown is pushing ladies into even better isolation resulting from worry of arbitrary arrest, and making a permissive atmosphere for males to implement repressive measures at dwelling,” the discharge stated.
UNAMA known as for the rapid launch of these in detention, including it had mentioned the problem with Taliban authorities.
“Enforcement measures involving bodily violence are particularly demeaning and harmful for Afghan ladies and women,” stated UNAMA head Roza Otunbayeva.
“Detentions carry an infinite stigma that put Afghan ladies at even better danger,” she added.
Taliban authorities spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated UNAMA’s issues have been misplaced.
“Afghan ladies observe hijab by themselves, they do not have to be compelled, and nobody was compelled by officers of the Promotion of Virtues both,” he stated on social media web site X.
“The propaganda relating to this has no reality.”
On Tuesday, a Taliban official stated earlier than a gathering of non secular students in Kabul’s western Dasht-e-Barchi space – an enclave of the traditionally persecuted Shiite Hazara group – that a number of women and girls have been detained just lately in Kabul for not overlaying themselves correctly.
Since returning to energy in August 2021, Taliban authorities have imposed a strict interpretation of Islam, with ladies bearing the brunt of legal guidelines the United Nations has labelled “gender apartheid”.
