Mass arrest of women; Human Rights Watch: Taliban commit brutal attack on women's autonomy

Shaqayeq Mon Jul 2025 4 months ago 296

The organization, on Monday, August 6, issued a report warning that the recent arrests have spread an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among women and girls across Afghanistan.


The report states that the enforcement of the strict "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" decree, which has been imposed by the Taliban since August last year and forces women to fully cover their bodies, including their faces, in public spaces, has intensified.


Human Rights Watch, quoting one of the detained women, wrote: "At present, there is no such thing as improper veiling in Afghanistan."


The human rights organization added that the Taliban, by exerting control over women's bodies and identities and imposing patriarchal standards, have assumed the role of a gendered moral authority, with the aim of systematically excluding women and girls from the country's public sphere.


The report further states that with each passing day, the suppression of women in Afghanistan deepens, and women have been deprived of the right to employment, education, and freedom of movement—a situation that has forced many of them to remain confined to their homes.


Human Rights Watch emphasized that the arrest of women and girls on charges of "unveiling" is part of the Taliban's efforts to systematically eliminate women's autonomy and impose complete obedience to the group's directives, an action that also intensifies physical and psychological violence against women.


The report recalls that over the past four years, the Taliban have deprived women and girls of their most basic human and Islamic rights and have systematically suppressed them.

Human Rights Watch, in response to the mass arrests of women and girls by the Taliban under the pretext of "improper veiling," stated that this action is a ruthless attack on the autonomy and freedom of women and girls in Afghanistan.

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