News Center- The Powerful Women of Afghanistan movement has announced that women’s rights activist Nargis Sadat, who was arrested by the Taliban two months ago, was released from prison on Monday, April 10.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed the release of the women’s right activist on its social media account. The social media post said, “UNAMA welcomes reported release of Nargis Sadat & Zakaria Osuli, remains concerned about ongoing arbitrary detention of number of Afghanistan civil society activists, incl. rights defenders who have spoken out about rights of women & girls, some held incommunicado for months.”