News Center- The Powerful Afghan Women’s Movement has announced that Afghan women’s rights activist Julia Parsi and her son were arrested by the Taliban's secret police, known as the General Directorate of Intelligence.

According to local reports, the Taliban’s secret police raided her home and violently arrested her and her son after searching her home. The reports also said that the Taliban secret police confiscated the activist’s personal belongings and documents. Julia Parsi and her son were taken to an unknown location.

‘The Taliban aim to silence the voices of Afghan women’

The Powerful Afghan Women’s Movement has released a statement condemning the arrest of Julia Parsi. “The Taliban aims to silence the voices of millions of Afghan women by arresting Julia Parsi and other women activists. The violent arrest of women is a violation of human rights,” the statement said.

On September 19, 2023, the Taliban arrested Neda Parwani, a member of the “Spontaneous Women’s Movement of Afghanistan”, along with her husband and four-year-old son from her house in Khair Khana area of Kabul. They are still held in Taliban prison.