The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has asked the Taliban for an explanation regarding the situation of Zarifa Yaqoobi, a well-known women’s rights activist, and four other women’s rights defenders who were arrested in Kabul yesterday.
“All Afghans have the fundamental right to peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and opinion without fear of threats and arrest,” UNAMA said on Friday (November 4th).
The Taliban arrested Zarifa Yaqoobi and several other women’s rights activists, including journalists, during a press conference yesterday (November 3rd) in Dasht-e Barchi, Kabul.
The press conference, which was held to announce the “Afghan Women’s Movement for Equality”, was violently dispersed by Taliban forces.
One of the participants of the meeting told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban checked the mobile phones of all the attendees and then expelled them from the meeting.
Taliban forces reportedly stormed the women’s press conference yesterday in the PD-13th of Kabul and violently prevented journalists from covering the conference, according to sources.