Arbitrary Detention and Extortion of Haji Zahir, Ghazni (2021)
Document- Dates of Incident
- Nov 1, 2021 ~ Dec 31, 2021
- Year of Incident
- 2021
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Jaghuri
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.410303469151
Longitude: 67.4975265361925
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Jaghuri
- Town Village
- Sayyed Ahmad, Jaghuri
- Types of Incident
- Arrest
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Torture
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Extortion
- Unknown: Taking hostages
- Unknown: Torture
- Unknown: Unlawful confinement
- Unknown: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Perpetrators
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
- Summary
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.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- No of victims involved
- 1