Female protesters march through the Dashti-E-Barchi neighborhood, a day after the Taliban announced their new male interim government without representation of women and ethnic minority groups in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
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On Friday, the UN rights office said the Taliban’s response to peaceful marches in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons and whips that have caused at least four deaths. of protesters.
Ravina Shamdasani, a UN rights spokeswoman, told Geneva she had received reports of house-to-house searches of those involved in the protests. Journalists have also faced intimidation and one of those beaten in custody was verbally threatened with beheading, he added.