News Center- The Afghan Women’s Movement has published a statement to mark the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, annually observed on June 26. Women are tortured, subjected to rights violations and oppression in the prisons of the Taliban every day, the statement said.

In the statement, the movement called on the international community to “prosecute and punish the officials of the Taliban, a terrorist group, for torturing women, female journalists and human rights activists in the prisons.”

Emphasizing the important role of the international community to free women, female journalists and human rights activists from the terrible prisons of the Taliban, the movement said that gender apartheid in Afghanistan should be recognized by the international community.