The Taliban committed at least 800 abuses against their predecessors in Afghanistan

The UN documented at least 800 cases of arbitrary arrests, torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, ill-treatment and threats that the de facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have committed since August 2021 against former government officials and former members of the security forces linked to the previous government. .

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama, for its acronym in English) released the figure in a report that was published on Tuesday and covers the period from August 15, 2021, the date on which the Taliban retook to power, and on June 30, 2023.

The United Nations survey records 424 arbitrary arrests and imprisonments

The text records in that period 218 extrajudicial executions, 14 forced disappearances, more than 144 cases of torture and ill-treatment, as well as 424 arbitrary arrests and imprisonments.

However, the spokesman for the Taliban government, Zabiullah Mujahid, responded in a statement that this report "does not correspond to reality and is far from the truth."

Contrary to what the UN denounces, Mujahid specified that the conditions of political amnesty "for the opponents of the new authorities are strictly complied with and the few cases of killing for personal or other reasons are scrupulously investigated."

Likewise, he regretted that several organizations within the UN do not try to "understand the realities of Afghanistan and see the positive changes, but always look for the negative aspects and spread propaganda to undermine confidence" in the new authorities.