Kabul: The Taliban stormed an apartment in Kabul, broke open the door and arrested a women's rights activist and her three sisters. An eyewitness gave this information on Thursday. According to a US news agency report, a Taliban statement recently attributed the incident to women's protests, saying that insults to Afghan values would no longer be tolerated.
The activist, Tamana Zarabi Parayani, was among about 25 women who took part in anti-Taliban protests on Sunday against the mandatory Islamic headscarf, or hijab, for women. A neighborhood man who witnessed the arrest said about 10 armed men claiming to be from Taliban intelligence conducted the raid on Wednesday night.
Shortly before she and her sisters were taken away, footage of Paryani was posted on social media, in which she looked frightened and breathless and shouted for help, saying the Taliban were banging on her door. Were.
"Please help, Taliban have come to our house. Only my sisters are at home,” she is heard saying in the footage. Other female voices are also crying in the background. "I can't open the door. Please help!"
Footage from the scene on Thursday showed the apartment's front door, made of metal and painted reddish brown, left dented and slightly ajar. The residents of a nearby apartment did not want to speak to the journalists and ran inside their house. An external security door made of steel slats was sealed and locked, making it impossible to enter Paryani's apartment.
Eyewitnesses said that the raid took place at around 8 pm. The armed men went up to the third floor of the Kabul apartment complex where Paryani lives and began banging on the front door to order the door to be opened.
When he refused, they kicked repeatedly till the door opened, the witness said. "They took four women, they were all sisters," said the witness, adding one of the four
Paryani was an activist. The witness spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the Taliban.
General Mobin Khan, spokesman for the Taliban-appointed police in Kabul, tweeted that Paryani's social video post was a fabricated drama. Taliban intelligence spokesman Khalid Hamraj neither confirmed nor denied the arrest.
However, he tweeted that "insults to the religious and national values of the Afghan people are no longer tolerated" - a reference to Sunday's protest, during which protesters appeared to be burning a white burqa, wearing the traditional head-to-toe woman Apparel included. Which only opens a trap for the eyes.