Local sources report that the Taliban have transferred Ahmad Fahim Azimi and Sadiqullah Afghan, two activists involved in girls’ education and members of the Afghan Robotics Girls’ Team, to Pul-e-Charkhi Prison after 72 days in the custody of the intelligence unit of the group’s 40th Division.
Sources on Wednesday, December 27, confirmed to the Hasht-e Subh Daily that the Taliban recently transferred these two individuals to Pul-e-Charkhi Prison without holding a trial.
According to sources, the Taliban have denied these two education activists the right to have a lawyer during this period.
Nevertheless, the families of Ahmad Fahim and Sadiqullah are demanding the immediate release of these two education activists from Taliban custody.
The Taliban detained Fahim Azimi, an advocate for girls’ education, and his colleague on October 15 of this year from their office in Kart-e-Char, in the third district of Kabul.
Previously, Roya Mahboob, the leader of the Afghan Robotics Girls’ Team, had stated that the Taliban had detained Azimi and several colleagues from the “DCF” section of the team on charges of “assisting the evacuation of girls from the robotics team” and “organizing protests.”
It is worth noting that since their resurgence to power, the Taliban have detained and imprisoned several human rights activists and education advocates in the country, in addition to the former government military officials.
