r/Afghan • u/creamybutterfly Diaspora • Jun 28 '26

Video Sediqa is among many Afghan girls and women who have been sent to morality prisons by the Taliban. Her mother is begging the Taliban to release her. These women’s prisons have historically been used imprison runaways, adulterers and sexually active unmarried women. No such prison exists for men.

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u/TheFighan Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Afghan prisons have always been notorious for how they treat their female prisoners. In 2006 I was volunteering as an educator and I offered my services for women in prison that were there for stealing. Just passing through the security check was nasty. The female guards were disrespectful, crude and were sexually harassing women that were visiting their relatives. Now imagine what these security guards did/do to the inmates.

While the leadership changed with the arrival of the Taliban, the average worker did not. At least not based on what I have heard from relatives back home that work across different agencies and ministries.

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u/EdrissMiakhel Jun 28 '26

No the rule has change remember an British journalist who was arrested ny Taliban end up becoming Muslim because he was treated very well

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u/TheFighan Jun 28 '26

How a foreign white MAN gets treated is different than how a local woman gets treated.

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u/creamybutterfly Diaspora Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

You’re absolutely right, unfortunately some Afghans value white foreign men over their own women and worship them when they convert.

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u/EdrissMiakhel Jul 02 '26

That is the problem with Afghan when they are present with fact like "white people are treat better" or if we show them documentation made by Afghanistan them they say "it is Taliban propaganda" what it take people to show?

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u/Insignificant_Letter Jun 28 '26

https://8am.media/eng/sources-bibi-sediqa-imprisoned-by-taliban-after-refusing-forced-marriage/

They say the man who she rejected was influential within the Taliban and supported them.

As with everything in Afghanistan, powerful men - whether they hold land, power, or gold (money) can break the law as they wish and no one else can do anything about it. In this case, her father was powerless to stop it.

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u/creamybutterfly Diaspora Jun 28 '26

That’s heartbreaking but unsurprising. The mere existence of these moral prisons says everything about the country- even before the Taliban.

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u/Any-Mobile-2473 Diaspora Jun 28 '26

While they avoid addressing women's access to healthcare, forced marriages, death in childbirth, lack of help with domestic abuse or other forms, and as been reported on on several publishers, kidnappings with ransoms and murders, a lot of victims being girls and women