Arbitrary Arrest and Extortion of Amini, Ghazni (2022)
Incident- Dates of incident
- Feb 20, 2022 ~ Mar 20, 2022
- Year of incident
- 2022
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Jaghuri
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.410303469151
Longitude: 67.4975265361925
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Jaghuri
- Town/Village
- Angoori Area, Jaghuri
- Types of incident
- Arrest
- Detention
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Torture
- Conflict parties
- Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militant
- Taliban Security (Police) Command
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Extortion
- Other Crimes : Other inhumane acts
- Other Crimes : Outrages upon personal dignity
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Torture
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Other Crimes : Wilfully causing great suffering
- Regime in place
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
In Hoot 1400 AH (February-March 2022), Amini, a Hawaladar (traditional money transfer agent) and money exchange shop owner from Angoori Village in Jaghori district, was arrested without charges by Mullah Pirouz, the Taliban Security Chief, and Molavi Anas, the District Head of Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI). Amini was severely tortured and beaten by the Taliban,as they demanded 200,000 US dollars from him. Although he was released on bail, Amini is required to report to the Taliban weekly, and his case remains unresolved since he was not able to pay the amount.
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AHRDO Incident Report
- No of victims involved
- 1
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