Los Taliban They have banned entry into Afghanistan from the rapporteur of United Nations on human rights for the Asian country, Richard Bennettfor “spreading propaganda,” a source from the fundamentalists told EFE on Wednesday.
“Bennett is no longer allowed to enter Afghanistan”a Taliban spokesman said, Hamdullah Fitrat.
Both the source and the main spokesman for the fundamentalist interim government, Zabiullah Mujahidaccused the UN rapporteur of “propaganda” against their regime.
In a video message, Mujahid said Bennett “exaggerates minor problems and spreads them.”
What the Taliban call “minor issues” that the fundamentalists claim are solely an internal matter for Afghanistan are in fact a series of serious human rights violations since they seized power in August 2021, and which Bennett has repeatedly denounced.
“We have documented public executions and corporal punishment recently. Peaceful dissent has been stifled (while) violence and the threat of violence are used with impunity to control the population through fear.”the human rights rapporteur said in his latest report, published last March.
Bennett also denounced the rapid deterioration of the situation of women in Afghanistan, who have seen their rights severely limited since the arrival of the Taliban.
The Taliban’s impositions range from strict dress codes to restrictions on accessing the job market, as well as a ban on female higher education throughout the country.
At a press conference in Geneva in mid-August, more than 30 experts, including Bennett, said the situation in the Asian country was continuing to worsen and called on the international community to avoid any action that would assume this was the “new normal.”
These and other criticisms from the international community have so far prevented official recognition of the Taliban interim government, despite gestures such as the admission of a fundamentalist ambassador by China or the steps of Russia towards the normalization of relations. EFE (I)
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