Taliban Abduct Shopkeeper and Cut Off Finger for Voting in Helmand (2018)
Incident- Date
- Oct 22, 2018
- Dates of incident
- Oct 20, 2018 ~ Oct 22, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Helmand: Unknown
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6619926489105
Longitude: 64.9910104012577
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Maywand
- Town/Village
- Maywand district, Helmand province
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Torture
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Mutilation
- Other Crimes : Outrages upon personal dignity
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Torture
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On October 20, 2018, Taliban fighters reportedly abducted a shopkeeper in Maywand district and detained him for two days. According to the victim, the Taliban cut off the top of his finger as punishment for having voted for an anti-Taliban candidate. This incident represents deliberate torture and mutilation as punishment for exercising democratic rights.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 1
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