Zabihullah Mujahid officially announced that the arrival of Richard Bennett; The special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council for Afghanistan has been banned from this country.
Kabul24: The reason for this ban is Mr. Bennett’s recent reports on human rights violations in Afghanistan, which the Islamic Emirate considers “propaganda” against them.
Kabul 24: Zabihullah Mujahid; Today, Tuesday, 30 said in a statement sent to the media that the ban on the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur’s visit to Afghanistan was imposed because of “propaganda against Afghanistan”. Meanwhile, Mr. Bennett regularly prepares reports on the human rights situation in Afghanistan.
Mr. Mujahid has said about this new action that this UN official was presenting “false information” about the situation in Afghanistan to the world.
Mujahid added: “He [Richard Bennett] is not someone we believe in his words. He is not present in Afghanistan and is not allowed to come anymore. He made a small issue big and advertised.”
The Taliban had previously rejected Mr. Bennett’s reports about the dire situation of human rights in Afghanistan under their control and considered it “unreal”.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan and 29 other experts of this organization, on the eve of the third anniversary of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, also expressed their concern about the widespread violation of human rights by the Taliban and asked the countries of the world not to make the situation of Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban seem normal. .
They also supported efforts to initiate a case against the Taliban at the International Court of Justice based in The Hague, Netherlands, for violating the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other applicable instruments.
Richard Bennett had traveled to Afghanistan last year and met and talked with senior Taliban officials, including cabinet members of this group. At that time, the Taliban had said from Mr. Bennett’s words that he had assessed the human rights situation in the country as “good”
