Afghanistan: women's rights defender and her son arrested
Event- Country
- Afghanistan
- Initial Date
- Sep 27, 2023
- Event Description
Zholia Parsi, a women’s rights activist, was arrested with her elder son by the Taliban in Qala-e-Fathullah area in Kabul on Wednesday morning, sources confirmed.
According to sources, Parsi was arrested from her home in Kabul and some of their belongings, including mobile phones and a number of documents, were taken away by the Taliban.
This is the second arrest of a women’s rights activist by the Taliban in less than a month.
Taliban has not commented on the matter so far.
More details will be added to this story.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Woman
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Rights Concerned
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Family of HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 34.59922353180545
Longitude: 69.16180251251018
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 27 September 2023, community-based women's rights defender Zholia Parsi along with her son, were arrested by the Taliban possibly due to her human rights work in Kabul, Afghanistan.