Distinguished Afghan Professor arrested for criticising Taliban on social media
The Taliban have arrested a well known college professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments, which include the new rulers in Kabul.
Prior to his arrest, Faizullah Jalal, a longtime professor of law and political science at Kabul University made quite a few appearances on television converse exhibits considering the fact that the US-backed government was pushed out in August, blaming the Taliban for the worsening economical disaster and criticising them for ruling by force.
The professor was also accused of making “nonsense remarks on social media, which have been provoking individuals towards the govt and enjoying with people’s dignity.”
In a tweet shared in the early several hours of Sunday January 9, Jalal’s daughter Hasina Jalal pleaded for her father’s launch. “As I verify the disturbing information. I check with for the immediate release of my father Professor Faizuallah Jalal,” she tweeted.
TOLO Television set, Afghanistan’s biggest station on which Faizuallah Jalal was a repeated commentator, tweeted that Jalal was arrested “reportedly for producing allegations versus federal government departments, a safety resource said.”
In 1 television look, Jalal known as Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem a “calf”, a grave insult in Afghanistan. Clips of his passionate criticism went viral on social media, sparking problems of retribution.
Jalal is the spouse of a single of the country’s to start with woman presidential candidates, Masooda Jalal, who ran versus previous President Hamid Karzai in 2004.
The Taliban seized regulate of Afghanistan last August forward of America’s chaotic Aug. 31 departure immediately after nearly 20 a long time of war. The Islamic militant guerrillas-turned-rulers beforehand held electric power from 1996-2001.
They have also shaped an all-male cabinet manufactured up fully of users of the group, and virtually exclusively of ethnic Pashtuns.
They have further more restricted women’s legal rights to get the job done and study, triggering prevalent international condemnation.
