The US demands that the Taliban immediately release the last activists detained in Kabul

Nov. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The US chargé d’affaires in Afghanistan, Karen Decker, has urged the Taliban fundamentalist movement to immediately release the five human rights activists, one of them a well-known women’s rights defender, detained on Thursday at the capital Kabul.

“The United States will never stop supporting the rights of women to live, work and gather in peace,” Decker tweeted.

Activist Zarifa Yaqobi was arrested along with her colleagues in the west of the city when they tried to organize a group known as the Movement for Afghan Women.

These five people remain under arrest and the UN has requested information from the authorities, according to a spokesman for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jeremy Laurence.

In addition, the agents held the rest of the women who had attended the event for around an hour in the room itself. During this time, they allegedly searched and checked the phones of the attendees, according to information released by the United Nations.

Sources quoted by the Jaama Press agency have assured that Taliban forces entered the room at gunpoint, located in a majority Hazara neighborhood in western Kabul. Both Hazaras and women have historically been marginalized in Afghanistan, especially with the Taliban in power.

The usual spokesman for the Taliban and Deputy Minister of Information of the regime, Zabiulá Muyahid, declared this Saturday that he had no record of Yaqobi’s arrest.