Taliban Restricts UN Reporter’s Entry Amidst Worldwide Outcry Over Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban barred a UN reporter from getting into the nation, who revealed details about the Taliban’s human rights violations in Afghanistan. UN Particular Rapporteur Richard Bennett was suspended. The Taliban additionally mentioned they’d knowledgeable Richard.

The truth that girls have been denied training and banned from workplaces was an enormous dialogue on the worldwide stage. Girls have been banned from public locations, parks and gymnasiums. There have been prohibitions, together with touring with a male family member. There was a substantial amount of criticism from the worldwide stage in opposition to such stances of the Taliban.

However the Taliban have mentioned that the ban imposed on Bennett is because of some private causes. The pinnacle of the Taliban authorities, Zabihullah Mujahid, says Bennett was appointed to Afghanistan as a part of some particular agenda and banned as a result of he was unreliable.

Bennett has publicly uncovered most of the issues girls face in Afghanistan. Final week, the third anniversary of the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan, 29 UN consultants, together with Bennett, responded to the nation’s human rights abuses. He additionally condemned the choice to exclude Afghan girls from an occasion held by the United Nations in Qatar on the finish of June. However Sabihullah accused Bennett of exaggerating small points.