UN concerned by Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations

ISLAMABAD (AP) – The United Nations expressed his concerns about the arrest of Afghan women and girls on Monday that Afghan women and girls did not comply with the rules of clothing.

In May 2022, Taliban government He issued a decree asking women to advise women to show their eyes and wear a burka from top to bottom. Taliban, He returned to power In 2021, in the form of women dressing and acting on the people, especially Moral laws Forbid their faces from home.

The UN mission in Afghanistan, Kabul, said that the “many” women and girls were arrested in Kabul between 16-19 July, and that the authorities did not follow the headscarf or Islamic headscarf.

Mission serves to isolate women and girls more, contribute to the climate of fear, and eroding public confidence in the mission, without details such as the number of ages and where they were made.

The UN Mission Taliban government ” Execution Policies and Applications “Living women and girls’ human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially Prohibition of education beyond the sixth grade.

A Taliban representative was not present to comment immediately.

In January 2024, the country’s assistant and the Ministry of Virtue said he arrested the women in the Afghan capital for wearing a “bad capital”. A ministry spokesman Abdul Ghafar Farooq did not say how many women were arrested or what was a bad headscarf.

The UN mission said that women were investigating extortion allegations in exchange for ill -treatment and release.

Taliban He took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 After the withdrawal of the US and NATO forces. Since then, the Taliban administration has sought international recognition while implementing the interpretation of Islamic law. In July, Russia became the only country Picture recognition.