{"id":31120,"date":"2024-08-22T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T08:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=31120"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T08:33:31","slug":"due-to-propaganda-and-spreading-lies-taliban-bans-un-rapporteur-from-entering-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/due-to-propaganda-and-spreading-lies-taliban-bans-un-rapporteur-from-entering-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to &#8220;Propaganda and Spreading Lies&#8221;&#8230; Taliban Bans UN Rapporteur from Entering Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Afghan government&#8217;s official spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Richard Bennett, was banned from entering Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Mujahid stated in a press briefing to Al Jazeera Net today, Wednesday, that the decision to ban him was made &#8220;because of the propaganda against Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The spokesperson said, &#8220;Bennett was prevented from coming to Afghan territory because he was responsible for propaganda against Afghanistan, and he is not someone whose words we can trust,&#8221; noting that his reports lack credibility and impartiality.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The spokesperson emphasized that the Taliban respects women&#8217;s rights in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan customs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Earlier, Richard Bennett accused the Taliban of widespread human rights violations in Afghanistan, including violence against women, members of civil society, the media, former soldiers, and ethnic and religious minorities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0In his latest report describing violations of women&#8217;s rights, Bennett wrote, citing human rights activists, that the Taliban created gender apartheid in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0He also called for prosecuting Taliban officials involved in human rights violations at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0In April 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Richard Bennett as Special Rapporteur to document human rights violations in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0UN experts visited Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif between April 27 and May 4 last year. They met with Afghan men and women working in various sectors, representatives of UN agencies, international NGOs, and several Taliban officials.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 The Afghan government&#8217;s official spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Richard Bennett, was banned from entering Afghanistan. \u00a0Mujahid stated in a press briefing to Al Jazeera Net today, Wednesday, that the decision to ban him was made &#8220;because of the propaganda against Afghanistan.&#8221; \u00a0The spokesperson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31122,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions\/31122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}