Since the Islamic Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, former policewomen have been living in constant fear and threat. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch writes this in a report.
Women described receiving threatening phone calls or how Islamists forcibly searched their homes. The women surveyed also reported increasing violence in their families, as family members opposed their work as police officers.
Many ex-police officers fled abroad
According to Human Rights Watch, female police officers under the Taliban are only deployed in a few areas, such as at checkpoints or in women’s prisons. Many former civil servants fled to other parts of the country or to neighboring countries. Only a small proportion were admitted to Western countries that promoted and financed the recruitment and training of Afghan policewomen after 2002.
NGO: Women were “betrayed in two ways”
Human Rights Watch also reports systematic sexual violence against female police officers during the previous Western-backed government. “Afghan policewomen have been betrayed in two ways: first by the former Afghan government, which allowed serious sexual abuse to continue unchecked, and then by countries that ignored this abuse and were unwilling to resettle women seeking protection or grant them asylum. ,” said Fereshta Abbasi, Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Source: Krone
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