RASC: Zarifa Yaqoubi, a women’s rights activist, narrates a few months after being released from her arrest and torture in the Taliban detention center.
Yaqoubi, who was in prison for 41 days last year, told British Channel 4 TV about the prisons of this group, where the Taliban group beat him up on the charge of receiving money from foreign countries.
He said: “I was in Taliban prison for 41 days, which was like 41 years.” They beat me and asked which country pays you to protest against the Taliban.”
This women’s rights activist was arrested last year by the intelligence of the Taliban group at the place of holding a press conference in Dasht Barchi, Kabul.
She and other protesting women wanted to announce the existence of the “Afghanistani Women’s Movement for Equality” in this conference.
Zarifa is not the only critic who has been detained and tortured by the Taliban.
It should be noted that Azim Azimi, one of the other Afghanistani activists, has also faced similar accusations and treatment from the Taliban. He also told Channel 4: “They said that you take money from Israel, America and other countries.”
He added: “I was taken to the head of 90 intelligence. When they took me underground, I heard people screaming. One was tortured. Another was hanging from the ceiling. They beat someone. They tortured someone with a water pipe.”
Both of these victims of Taliban torture managed to get out of the country.
According to Channel 4, the Taliban denied torturing these activists and claims that they claim torture in order to receive asylum.
Despite this denial, Khalid Qadiri, a writer who spent 11 months in Taliban prison, and Parwana Ebrahim Khel, a civil activist, also told the media about the torture of people by the Taliban.
