ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) claims a number of female workers of the world body have faced harassment and restrictions in the past three months, but the Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on this report.
“UNAMA is concerned by increasing restrictions on civic space across Afghanistan,” Chief Human Rights Service, Fiona Frazer said in an update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan. https://bit.ly/3VHonUI.
In the report, Frazer criticised corporal punishments and executions and called for the suspension of the death penalty in Afghanistan.
“Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture & must cease. The UN is strongly opposed to the death penalty & encourages the DFA to establish an immediate moratorium on executions,” Fiona said.
In this report, UNAMA asked the current Afghan government to obey international human rights standards.
The caretaker government so far said nothing about the new report of UNAMA.
Two days earlier, the UN mission in Afghanistan said 274 men, 58 women and two boys had publicly been lashed over the last six months in the country.
Most of convicts were punished for offences such as extramarital relationships, running away from home, theft, homosexuality, consuming alcohol, fraud and drug trafficking, claimed the report.
It added the UN had documented one instance of judicially sanctioned execution of an alleged killer. He was publicly executed in the presence of senior officials in December.
But IEA spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spurned the UNAMA report as untrue. He said Afghanistan’s judicial system had been strengthened by the interim government.
With justice ensured for all, citizens had been given their rights in light of Islamic rules, he tweeted. “Ignores these developments and achievements is unfair.”
As a result of exemplary justice brought to the people, security across the country had been enforced and a transparent judicial system put in place, the spokesman said.
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