Kabul: a chief Afghan University Professors Who Openly Criticized Taliban’s hardline regime A government spokesman said the arrests had been made in Kabul.
Professor Faizullah Jalal He has made several appearances on television talk shows since ousting the previous US-backed government in August, blaming the Taliban for the worsening financial crisis and criticizing them for ruling by force.
Since returning to power, the Taliban have cracked down on dissent, forcefully dispersed women’s rights protests and briefly detained several Afghan journalists.
Taliban spokesman zabihullah mujahidi Tweeted that Jalal was detained on Saturday for his statements on social media in which he was “trying to incite people against the system and playing with the dignity of the people”.
“He has been arrested so that others in the name of being a professor or a scholar don’t make stupid remarks that hurt the dignity of others,” he said.
Mujahid shared screenshots of tweets they claimed were posted by Jalal, saying the Taliban’s intelligence chief was a puppet of Pakistan, and that the new government considered Afghans “donkeys”. Is.
In a television program, Jalal called Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem – who was attending – a “calf”, a grave insult in Afghanistan.
Clips of his passionate criticism went viral on social media, raising concerns that he risked retaliation from the Taliban.
Jalal’s wife Draft, who once stood as Afghanistan’s first female presidential candidate, posted on Facebook that her husband had been arrested by Taliban forces and taken into custody at an undisclosed location.
He said, “Dr. Jalal fought and raised his voice for justice and national interest in all his activities related to human rights.”
Long a professor of law and political science at Kabul University, Jalal has long had a reputation as a critic of Afghanistan’s leaders.
On Twitter, rights group Amnesty International condemned the lecturer’s arrest for “exercising freedom of expression and criticizing the Taliban”, calling for his immediate and unconditional release.
The Taliban have formed an all-male cabinet composed entirely of members of the group, and almost exclusively ethnic Pashtuns.
They have further restricted women’s rights to work and study, which has drawn widespread international condemnation.
Professor Faizullah Jalal He has made several appearances on television talk shows since ousting the previous US-backed government in August, blaming the Taliban for the worsening financial crisis and criticizing them for ruling by force.
Since returning to power, the Taliban have cracked down on dissent, forcefully dispersed women’s rights protests and briefly detained several Afghan journalists.
Taliban spokesman zabihullah mujahidi Tweeted that Jalal was detained on Saturday for his statements on social media in which he was “trying to incite people against the system and playing with the dignity of the people”.
“He has been arrested so that others in the name of being a professor or a scholar don’t make stupid remarks that hurt the dignity of others,” he said.
Mujahid shared screenshots of tweets they claimed were posted by Jalal, saying the Taliban’s intelligence chief was a puppet of Pakistan, and that the new government considered Afghans “donkeys”. Is.
In a television program, Jalal called Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem – who was attending – a “calf”, a grave insult in Afghanistan.
Clips of his passionate criticism went viral on social media, raising concerns that he risked retaliation from the Taliban.
Jalal’s wife Draft, who once stood as Afghanistan’s first female presidential candidate, posted on Facebook that her husband had been arrested by Taliban forces and taken into custody at an undisclosed location.
He said, “Dr. Jalal fought and raised his voice for justice and national interest in all his activities related to human rights.”
Long a professor of law and political science at Kabul University, Jalal has long had a reputation as a critic of Afghanistan’s leaders.
On Twitter, rights group Amnesty International condemned the lecturer’s arrest for “exercising freedom of expression and criticizing the Taliban”, calling for his immediate and unconditional release.
The Taliban have formed an all-male cabinet composed entirely of members of the group, and almost exclusively ethnic Pashtuns.
They have further restricted women’s rights to work and study, which has drawn widespread international condemnation.
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