Afghan Women’s Protest Movement Condemns Forced Confession of Manizha Sadat

Following concerns raised by women’s rights activists over the forced confession of Manizha Sadat, an imprisoned women’s rights activist, by the Taliban, Afghanistan’s grassroots women’s protest movement says the group has resorted to coercion to whitewash its actions.

In a statement released on Friday night, the movement wrote that forced confession lacks credibility according to both domestic and international laws and is considered a crime.”

Taliban once again forced Manizha Sadat, a member of this movement, to confess, claiming she has not been tortured,” the statement reads.

According to the grassroots women’s protest movement, the Taliban have unjustly imprisoned Sadat for seven months without evidence.

The movement urges the international community, especially the United Nations, not to remain silent against the “Taliban’s crimes” and to increase pressure for Sadat’s unconditional release from Taliban custody.

The demand for the unconditional release of Sadat from prison is reiterated by the Afghan Women’s Protest Movement.

Taliban’s use of imprisoned women to whitewash their crimes is condemned by the movement, labeling it as an attempt to deceive the public.