RASC News Agency: “The Human Rights Defenders Committee of Afghanistan” says that the international community should listen to the voices of protesting women and pay attention to the demands of female activists who are in a “life and death struggle” due to the hunger strike.
The Human Rights Defenders Committee of Afghanistan wrote on Monday, September 11, in a statement about the country’s women’s strike, that human rights defenders demand the recognition of gender apartheid and gender persecution as “war crimes” and the initiation of immediate investigations into these two “common crimes” in Afghanistan.
This committee has stated that it is concerned about assassination and suicide among young women inside and outside of Afghanistan.
The declaration of this institution states: “The despair and suffering of Afghanistani women under the real Taliban regime has become unbearable for the population of innocent women and girls who are completely deprived of their basic rights and their social, economic, cultural, civil and political rights.”
On the other hand, the Human Rights Defenders Committee of Afghanistan, in response to the passage of several months since Rasul Parsi, a university professor and author, was arrested by the Taliban group, said that he deserves to live freely.
According to this institution, Parsi is now in one of the “scary prisons” of the Taliban group and is not in good health.
Meanwhile, Tamana Zaryab Paryani, a girl from Afghanistan, along with a number of other female activists, started their 12-day hunger strike 11 days ago due to the world’s indifference to the situation of women in the country.
It should be mentioned that Rasool Parsi was arrested in Kabul by the forces of the Taliban group at the end of last winter without providing any reason.
His arrest caused many reactions; but so far, the Taliban group has not responded positively to the request of any international organization for his release.
