Women trying to protest against Taliban restrictions have sent an angry letter to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepares to discuss Afghanistan.
The open letter accuses the Taliban regime of sucking the life out of civil society and freedom.
“The repressive, tyrannical, and terrorist regime of the Taliban, in the last two years, has committed all kinds of human crimes, including gender apartheid, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,” the letter said.
The Taliban were suppressing political opposition, freedom of media and freedom of expression while torturing, imprisoning and killing those who spoke against them, it continued.
Women were being removed from society in blatant breach of the United Nations Charter and other conventions banning discrimination and systematic exclusion of different social strata.
Dozens of women were currently held captive by the group.
The letter called on the council to finally take action to try to help the Taliban’s victims and refer their crimes against humanity to the International Criminal Court.
