Arbitrary Detention and Extortion of Haji Zahir, Ghazni (2021)
Incident- Dates of incident
- Nov 1, 2021 ~ Dec 31, 2021
- Year of incident
- 2021
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Jaghuri
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.410303469151
Longitude: 67.4975265361925
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Jaghuri
- Town/Village
- Sayyed Ahmad, Jaghuri
- Types of incident
- Arrest
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Torture
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Extortion
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- 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 Qaws 1400 (November-December 2021), Haji Zahir, a resident of Seyyed Ahmad, was arbitrarily arrested by Mullah Pirouz, the former security chief of Taliban in Jaghori district, Ghazni Province. Despite having no military background, Haji Zahir was detained and subsequently released only after a ransom of 130,000 Afghanis was paid to the Taliban.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- No of victims involved
- 1