A former police officer was tortured and killed by the Taliban in the Mir Bacha Kot district of Kabul, local sources confirmed to KabulNow.
According to the sources, Taliban agents captured the former officer, identified as Sher Mohammad, on July 5, accusing him of holding weapons, and took him away to the district before torturing him to death.
The Taliban hanged Mohammad’s dead body inside an official compound in the district under the pretense that he had committed suicide, sources cited.
The victim’s family denied the allegation that Mohammad had taken his own life.
Sources explained that the Taliban buried Mohammad’s body on Saturday, July 6, without informing his family.
The victim is said to be a close relative of Zumrai Paikan, a former police commander who served in the previous government.
Taliban authorities have not commented on this matter as of yet.
Rights groups say the Taliban continue to engage in arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment, and extrajudicial killings of former government officials and soldiers despite the “general amnesty” announced by the Taliban leader.
In its May report, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented at least 38 instances of arbitrary arrest and detention, at least 10 instances of torture and ill-treatment, verbal threats, and at least four extrajudicial killings of ex-officials and former ANDSF members.
In August last year, UNAMA recorded more than 800 cases of gross rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances. More than 200 former Afghan soldiers and officials were killed extrajudicially by the Taliban since the group overtook power in August 2021.
