Taliban authorities have detained a former soldier in the Khadir district of central Daikundi province.
The soldier, identified as Hussain, was summoned by Taliban’s district security command Monday and arrested on charges of not surrendering weapons to the authorities, one source said.
Hussain served as an army soldier in the Republican government before the Taliban overtook power in August 2021.
Human rights groups have accused the Taliban of gross human rights violations, fearing revenge killings and enforced disappearances of former security forces have not stopped despite the Taliban’s “general amnesty.”
In a recent report, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented at least 800 cases of human rights abuses—including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and torture and ill-treatment—against the former army, police, and intelligence forces between August 15, 2021, and June 2023.
Of these, 218 cases involved extrajudicial killings of former security forces and ex-officials, more than 424 cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions, and the remaining were reported as instances of torture, enforced disappearances, and other abuse.
The Taliban called the UNAMA report “untrue and far from reality.”
