By Rukhshana Media
A Kabul University professor was arrested on the charge of “inciting people against the system,” the Taliban spokesman confirmed on Saturday.
Faizullah Jalal, a Kabul University lecturer was arrested in the capital, Kabul after a Twitter account attributed to him posted anti-Taliban comments. In a Twitter post, his daughter, Hasina Jalal said the account is fake and does not belong to her father.
“It has been six hours since the arrest of my father, Professor Jalal, and ever since, we have not been able to contact him,” Hasina Jalal tweeted.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesman confirmed the professor’s arrest. “A fanatic man named Jalal has been arrested for… inciting people against the system,” Mujahid tweeted on Saturday.
The spokesman provided some screenshots of the anti-Taliban comments from the alleged Twitter account. The reason for his arrest was given “so that no one else under the name of a professor or intellectual utter such nonsense,” the spokesman’s tweet warns.
Professor Jalal, famous for his flamboyant criticisms of the previous government officials and politicians, created a ruckus a month ago for boldly lambasting the new Taliban government in a television talk show, in a debate with the Taliban Qatar-based spokesman, Mohammad Naeem Wardak.
The arrest of the professor has been widely criticized by journalists, activists, artists, and the general public, asking for his immediate release.
The arrest has also been condemned by international organizations.
Amnesty International condemned the Professor’s arrest for “exercising his freedom of expression and criticizing the Taliban on a TV show.”
“We call on the Taliban authorities to immediately and unconditionally release him,” Amnesty International said in a tweet.
