News Center- Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, they have imposed the Sharia law especially against women and girls. Women and girls have been deprived of their right to education, work and to be elected. The country has been turned into a nightmare for women and girls by the Taliban.

Although the Taliban have tried to show that they have been “changed”, their inhuman practices have revealed that nothing has been changed. As soon as the Taliban took the control of the country, they began to arrest, torture and detention opponents, especially women and girls. There are many stories of those who were detained and tortured by the Taliban agents.

When the Taliban took over Kabul in 1996, they burned the houses and agricultural fields of the people; committed massacres against the Hazaras in Bamyan and Mazar.

‘The mentality has not changed’

NuJINHA spoke to an Afghan woman about the difference between the practices of the Taliban in the 1990s and now. “At that time (When the Taliban took over Kabul in 1996), I was a young woman. At that time, I did not like Fridays because the Taliban committed crimes against people every Friday. We saw dead bodies on the streets. After 20 years, the Taliban took over Kabul again. Now, the Taliban whip women and men every day. They executed a man in the city of Farah. Even if 20 years have passed, the mentality has not changed,” she told us.

 Several days ago, Afghanistan’s chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani shared a video and announced that they have ordered for 175 counter actions, the stoning of 37 people, 79 ransom payments.” After his announcement, the high-ranking Taliban officials such as Saeed Khosti, Alamgol Haqqani, Maulvi Abdul Jabbar and Nurullah Adel published photos on social media accounts showing punishments against the crimes of moral issues. The photos showed the punishment against the people, who were allegedly committed crimes such as adultery and rape in Sharia law. However, the members of the Taliban who commit such crimes go unpunished. Six months ago, Abdul Ghani Haqbin, former counterterrorism chief of the Taliban Police in Kandahar, was imprisoned for adultery. However, he was released after an order by the group’s leader.

The Taliban see adultery as a crime and severely punish ordinary Afghan citizens accused of this crime.

A Taliban commander’s son attempted to rape Rozmineh, a 25-year-old woman, in Ghor province. He shot and killed the women after she resisted. Although a video showing how he killed Rozmineh was released on social media platforms, he has gone unpunished.