...the Pashtun equivalent of men...arrested women journalists and activists in Kabul, including Zarifa Yaqoubi, one of the demonstrators who attended a presser announcing the formation of the Afghan Women’s Movement for Equality, on Thursday, November 3.
The gun-wielding Taliban forces including women coppers invaded a women’s presser held in Dasht-e-Barchi, a Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
neighborhood in west Kabul, arbitrarily arresting women activists, journalists, and their male colleagues, sources told Khaama Press.
A source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, added that the Taliban initially encircled the premises before intrusively disrupting the presser held by women, forcibly arresting them and taking their mobile phones.
One of the women detained by the Taliban was Zarifa Yaqoubi, a member of the Movement of Change for Afghanistan’s executive council, the country’s first political party to be headed by a woman, Fawzia Koofi, the former member of the Lower House of the bicameral Afghan parliament.
The Taliban’s arbitrary detention of journalists and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
advocates in Afghanistan has outraged Afghan civil society and the media, which has demanded both their immediate release and an end to the group’s persecution of them.
Fawzia Koofi, the founder of the Movement of Change for Afghanistan political party, and one of the members of the Afghan Peace Negotiation Delegation, in response to the Taliban’s latest arrest, stated that the "Taliban must be held accountable for the arbitrary arrest of women human rights activist in Afghanistan."
"This must end; women have the right to exercise their civic and social participation. More pressure will result in more resistance. Don’t push people to make hard choices," Koofi added.
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