Afghanistan: community-based defender arrested after speaking on women's education
Event- Country
- Afghanistan
- Initial Date
- Jan 7, 2023
- Event Description
Sultan Ali Ziaei, a young Hazara activist, was arrested by the Taliban on January 7.
Sources tell BNN; Ali Ziaei is being arrested, who was talking to a group of women about closing schools, universities and banning women from working.
Meanwhile, Taliban fighters entered the house and checked the girls’ phones and threatened to kill three of the girls. After that, they took Sultan Ali Ziaei with them.
Ali Ziaei is the only son of his family, now that his father is in a sick bed, he does not know about his son’s condition and wants his son’s release.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to liberty and security
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 34.529646788779665
Longitude: 69.17361200713243
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 7 January 2023, Sultan Ali Ziaei, community-based defender, was arrested by the Taliban after speaking on women's education in Kabul, Afghanistan.