Continuing repression of people’s voices in Daikundi; Taliban sentences veterinarian to two years in prison.
Continuing the ongoing repression of people’s voices, the Taliban in Daikundi have arrested and sentenced Mohammad Aziz Sharifi, a former employee of the Department of Agriculture and owner of a pharmacy in Nili, to two years in prison for posting a protest post on Facebook.
Sharifi, originally from Sangan village in Miramur district and currently a resident of Nili city, holds a master’s degree in veterinary and animal sciences from South Asian University. He had previously been beaten and fired by the Taliban’s head of agriculture. He is now one of hundreds of citizens imprisoned by the Taliban for protesting.
Critics say the sentence is a clear example of the Taliban’s policy of “systematic silencing”; a group that uses torture, detention, and intimidation to try to eliminate any dissenting voice from society.
From arresting journalists for laughing, to imprisoning cultural activists and even shopkeepers who shaved their beards, everything shows that the Taliban government, fearing freedom of expression, has become a full-fledged dictatorship.
