Afghanistan: social media activist arrested, tortured
Event- Country
- Afghanistan
- Initial Date
- Feb 23, 2023
- Event Description
According to local sources reports, Taliban have arrested a social and media activist in Takhar province.
Subhanullah Subhani was arrested 20 days ago by the Taliban intelligence services, sources reported on Wednesday.
Subhani is being tortured by Taliban reportedly and is in bad condition.
He has been arrested because of his critical posts on social media groups, sources added.
He was a teacher at Abu-Osman Taliqani School for years and recently obtained his doctorate degree in International Relations department from Khorazmi University in Iran.
He went to Takhar to visit his family a month ago.
Recently, there has been an increase in the arrest of social and media activists by the Taliban.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Torture
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to liberty and security
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Blogger/ Social Media Activist
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 36.74344140980796
Longitude: 69.54106646305318
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 23 February 2023, Subhanullah Subhani, social media activist, was arrested and tortured by the Taliban after ciriticising them on social media in Takhar Province, Afghanistan.