Lina was released in the hours following her arrest after signing a letter guaranteeing that she would adhere to Islamic dress codes. Roza Otunbayeva, the special representative of the head of Unama, said “enforcement measures involving physical violence are especially demeaning and dangerous for Afghan women and girls”, adding the associated stigma puts them “at even greater risk”. The agency said it is investigating “allegations of ill-treatment and incommunicado detention” and suggestions that religious and ethnic minority communities are being “disproportionately” targeted. Since Jan 1, the UN agency has documented a series of hijab decree enforcement campaigns in Kabul and Daykundi provinces by the de facto Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and the de facto police. The latest arrests evoked criticism from international agencies, including the UN’s Afghan mission (Unama) that has been documenting the Taliban’s increasing restrictions on the country’s women. They were cursing everyone, especially those who confronted them,” she added. “They told us our clothes were inappropriate. “They took us to a nearby police station, collected our cell phones and then asked us to call our family members one by one,” she said. Lina said 22 other girls were arrested alongside her, all of whom were told their clothes were “inappropriate”. “A female police officer among them grabbed my hand and pulled me into the street and pushed me into a police truck. “I was waiting for my sister at the market we had planned to go shopping for gifts for Mother’s Day when many Taliban members arrived there,” she said. Lina, 17, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said she had been “dressed very appropriately” when she was picked up by Taliban on Monday. The group also enforces bans on wearing makeup, or attending English classes.īut The Telegraph spoke with girls who said they were seized on the streets and arrested despite adhering to modesty rules. Women’s presence in public spaces is also tightly controlled, with an order requiring their faces to be covered, and restrictions on how far they can travel alone. Since taking over Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has banned girls from higher education, and restricted their access to the workforce. Several girls have reported being lashed by their Taliban captors. Girls as young as 16-years-old have been seized from markets, private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces for “bad hijab”. Dozens of young Afghan women have been detained by the Taliban over the past week in a crackdown targeting those accused of violating the group’s strict hijab rules.
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