History, Events And Facts

Inside Taliban prisons: sexual abuse, electric shocks and teeth drillings Under the Taliban rule, arbitrary detentions have become common occurances. Many are detained for having worked for the previous government or accused of collaborating with opposition groups. According to a Human Rights Watch, in 2022, the Taliban “carried out arbitrary detentions, torture, and summary executions of former security officers and perceived enemies, including security personnel in the former government.”  The group’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) and its morality police have a freehand to detain and punish individuals for a wide range of alleged crimes, including moral deviance, social and political activism, and association with opposition groups. The detainees are locked in overcrowded and unsanitary cells and are subjected to physical and psychological torture through beatings and electric shocks and other methods. They are kept incommunicado, with no contact to their famil...