در سراسر جهان، زنان و مردان افغان، مدافعان حقوق بشر و حامیان حقوق زنان، صدای خود را در همبستگی با زنانی که توسط طالبان در هرات بازداشت شده‌اند، بلند می‌کنند. Across the world, Afghan women and men, human rights defenders, and supporters are raising their voices in solidarity with the women arrested by the Taliban in Herat. These posters announce international demonstrations in different cities, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all women detained under the false excuse of so-called “bad hijab.” The arrests of women in Herat are not isolated incidents. They are part of the Taliban’s systematic campaign of fear, control, and gender apartheid against Afghan women and girls. From Europe to Afghanistan and beyond, we stand together with the detained women, their families, and all Afghan women who are being silenced, threatened, and erased from public life. We demand their immediate release. We demand accountability. We demand an end to Taliban gender apartheid. Afghan women are not alone. Their voices will not be silenced. #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice @minister_bzk @MariaStenergard @JohanForssell @Justitiedep @prevotmaxime @anneleen_vb @BernardQuintin_ @AussenMinDE @natalie_pawlik @BMI_Bund @ministerBZ @MinisterAenM @minister_bzk @heatherbarr1 @AFIntl_En @AmuTelevision

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If the Taliban do not immediately release the 46 women they have detained, we will launch a global wave of peaceful protests. From the White House to Berlin, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm and Geneva — from the heart of Europe to inside Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries — we will raise our voices until every detained woman is free. اگر طالبان ۴۶ زنی را که بازداشت کرده‌اند فوراً آزاد نکنند، ما موجی از اعتراضات جهانی و مسالمت‌آمیز را به راه خواهیم انداخت. از قصر سفید تا برلین، بروکسل، اسلو، استکهلم و ژنو — از قلب اروپا تا داخل افغانستان و کشورهای همسایه — صدای خود را بلند خواهیم کرد، تا زمانی که هر زن بازداشت‌شده آزاد شود. Pashto که طالبان هغه ۴۶ ښځې چې نیولي یې دي، سمدستي خوشې نه کړي، موږ به د نړۍ په کچه د سوله‌ییزو لاریونونو یو پراخ بهیر پیل کړو. له سپینې ماڼۍ څخه تر برلین، بروکسل، اوسلو، سټاکهلم او جنیوا پورې — د اروپا له زړه څخه تر افغانستانه دننه او ګاونډیو هېوادونو پورې — موږ به خپل غږ پورته کړو، تر هغه چې هره نیول شوې ښځه ازاده شي. #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice @minister_bzk @MariaStenergard @JohanForssell @Justitiedep @prevotmaxime @anneleen_vb @BernardQuintin_ @AussenMinDE @natalie_pawlik @BMI_Bund @ministerBZ @MinisterAenM @minister_bzk @WaisBarakzai @HabibKhanT @heatherbarr1 @AFIntl_En @AmuTelevision

Statement by the Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body on the Arrest of Women in Herat The Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body strongly condemns the reported arrest of dozens of women and girls by the Taliban in Herat under the pretext of “bad hijab”. According to eyewitnesses, photos and video footage received from Herat, Taliban forces arrested women in public spaces simply because their faces were not fully covered. These arrests are not isolated incidents. They are part of the Taliban’s systematic campaign of gender persecution, fear and total control over Afghan women’s bodies, movement and existence. For Afghan women, arrest by the Taliban is not a legal procedure. It is a threat of disappearance, humiliation, physical abuse, psychological torture, sexual violence and rape. Survivors and human rights defenders have repeatedly reported abuse inside Taliban detention facilities, while families are silenced through fear, shame and intimidation. We directly address the President of the European Commission (@EUCommission2), the Swedish Ministry of Justice (@Justitiedep) all European governments involved in any planned engagement with Taliban representatives in Brussels: -Do not invite the Taliban. Condemn them. -Do not give them legitimacy. Hold them accountable. -Do not discuss deportations with a regime that arrests women for showing their faces. Protect Afghan refugees from being returned to danger. At this very moment, Afghan women are being hunted in the streets for existing as women. Any political engagement that normalises the Taliban while these crimes continue is a betrayal of human rights, women’s rights and European values. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of all detained women in Herat. We call on the @EU_Commission , the @SR_Afghanistan , @UN_Women , @OHCHRAsia , @IOMAfghanistan ,#amnesty and international media to urgently investigate the available video and photo evidence, publicly condemn these arrests, and demand accountability for Taliban crimes, including torture, sexual violence and gender persecution. Silence is complicity. Engagement without accountability is legitimisation. The Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body stands with the women of Herat and with all Afghan women living under Taliban oppression. Afghan women do not need empty sympathy. They need protection, pressure on the Taliban and immediate international action. Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body 07.06.2026 #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice @minister_bzk @MariaStenergard @JohanForssell @Justitiedep @prevotmaxime @anneleen_vb @BernardQuintin_ @AussenMinDE @natalie_pawlik @BMI_Bund @ministerBZ @MinisterAenM @minister_bzk

72 civil society, human rights, women’s rights, refugee protection and diaspora organisations from #Europe, #Afghanistan and around the world urge EU leaders to stop any planned meeting with Taliban representatives in Brussels. Afghanistan is not safe. No forced returns. No normalisation of the Taliban. No compromise on human rights. #Afghanistan #Taliban #HumanRights #Refugees #WomenRights #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @eui_org @Europ @Europarl_EN @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

EU leaders and Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries must listen to @volker_turk and @UNHumanRights: Afghanistan is not safe. Afghan women, children and men must not be forced back to Taliban rule, where they face grave risks. Deportation must not become an excuse for engaging with, legitimising or normalising a regime that violates human rights, imposes gender apartheid and persecutes its own people. Halt involuntary returns to Afghanistan. No normalisation of the Taliban. ohchr.org/en/press-releases/… #Afghanistan #NoToTaliban #StopTalibanNormalization #HumanRights #GenderApartheid #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_Photo @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @AWACB_DE @eui_org @eui_org @Europarl_EN @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @amnesty @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

In continuation of our previous open letter — and the commitments and reassurances given by several members of the European Parliament — we are deeply alarmed by the recent Euractiv reports regarding planned meetings between EU Commission representatives and the Taliban. Today, we sent an official follow-up letter to the leadership of the EU institutions and Members of the European Parliament. Human rights, international law, and the credibility of European values must not be sacrificed for migration politics. #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @AWACB_DE @eui_org @Europ @europa @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg , @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

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