Continued Crackdown on Women’s Rights Activists in Afghanistan; Media Reports: Taliban Arrested Two More Women

Amaaj News reported hours later, citing sources close to the Taliban government’s intelligence minister, that Temana Paryani had been released, but there is no news about the status of the other two women.

Shortly before the publication of these reports, Amaaj News’s Twitter account reported the risk of arrest of Temana Paryani, a women’s rights activist in Afghanistan, by the Taliban group.

Amaaj News had published a video of Temana Paryani in which the women’s rights activist calls for help and says that Taliban members came to her home at night and demanded entry.

In another video published on Amaaj News’s Twitter page, the voices of several men can be heard from behind the door who intend to forcibly enter Temana Paryani’s residence.

In this video, the screams of Temana Paryani and another woman can be clearly heard as they refuse to open the door of their home to members of the Taliban group.

In this video, one of them addresses the Taliban members saying: “Speak from behind the door, I cannot open the house door to you so you can assault my sister.”

Temana Paryani is one of the women who has protested the restrictions imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban in recent months.

Amaaj News, which publishes news about Afghanistan in Farsi, Pashto, and English, has not yet provided further details on this matter.

Since coming to power in Afghanistan and forming a government in Kabul, the Taliban has imposed extensive restrictions on women, measures that have been sharply criticized by women’s rights defenders and the international community.

Imposing restrictions on women’s education and employment are among the measures taken by the Taliban in recent months.