RASC News Agency: The human rights organization “Freedom Now” has nominated Zhulia Parsi, an Afghanistani women’s rights activist who advocated for women’s rights following the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan, as a nominee for the “Martin Ennals Award” for human rights, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of human rights.
According to a statement released by Freedom Now on Thursday evening, April 25, the organization nominated Parsi for the Martin Ennals Award. The statement highlights that the “Martin Ennals Award” is presented annually to a human rights defender who has actively worked to combat human rights violations.
Despite ongoing suppression of protests by the Taliban, Zhulia Parsi, one of the leaders of the self-organized Afghanistani women’s protest movement, has been demonstrating on the streets of Kabul over the past two years to advocate for Afghanistani women’s rights. On September 27 of last year, Parsi and her child were detained by Taliban members at their home in the Qala-e-Fathullah area of Kabul.
Parsi was released from Taliban detention nearly three months later, on December 17 of last year. The final winner of the award will be announced in the summer of 2024. The Martin Ennals Award was granted in 2021 to Sultan Achilova from Turkmenistan, in 2022 to Bahraini Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, and in 2023 to Khurram Parvez from India, as well as two other recipients from Chad and Venezuela.
