Amnesty International: Taliban Police Law Tightens Human Rights Restrictions

Elaha Thu Aug 2026 3 weeks ago 189

The Taliban have banned all forms of demonstrations in Afghanistan under the new law. Amnesty International has deemed this ban a blatant violation of the right to peaceful assembly and warned that such regulations intensify the atmosphere of repression.


Under this law, photography and filming of punishment enforcement processes have been prohibited, and the maximum detention period has been extended from three days to 10 days. Article 41 also allows security officials to punish defendants and admonish them with abusive language.


Amnesty International says the new law grants sweeping powers to the police, while there is no clear mechanism for their legal accountability. The organization has added that protesters, civil society activists, and Taliban opponents continue to face arbitrary detention, torture, degrading treatment, and enforced disappearance.


This organization has called on the Taliban to repeal laws and policies that contradict Afghanistan’s international obligations. Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, laws from the republican era have been gradually set aside, replaced by regulations based on the Taliban’s interpretation of Sharia and decrees from Hibatullah Akhundzada.


Previously, the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” had faced international condemnation for granting extensive powers to mutawas to interfere in private life, women’s dress, music, and citizens’ movement. Amnesty International says that with the implementation of the “Police Law,” the scope of the Taliban’s security surveillance and repression has expanded, allowing this group’s police to take harsher action against gatherings, criticism, civil protest, and political activity opposing the Taliban leadership’s orders.



Amnesty International has described the Taliban’s “Police Law” as a sweeping assault on human rights in Afghanistan, stating that this law further restricts freedom of expression and assembly, privacy, children’s rights, and the right to a fair trial.

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