In the weeks since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan, evidence points to a brutal crackdown as they settle old scores and stamp out opposition. 'They were beating me by the whip, electric rod and whatever they had in their hand,' a journalist says.
once again took control, growing evidence points to a broad and sometimes brutal crackdown as they settle old scores, stamp out opposition and try to force many Afghans to adhere to their strict interpretation of Islam., Amnesty International warned that while the Taliban"have attempted to portray to the world that they will respect human rights ... the ground reality is far from this."
"The current situation in Afghanistan is a moment of reckoning — a moment when the human rights gains that the Afghan people have built over two decades is at risk of collapse," the report says.Daryabi, 22, says he was covering a women's rights protest in Kabul this month when he was taken to a police station by Taliban fighters and severely beaten.
Journalists Nemat Naqdi, left, and Taqi Daryabi, show their wounds sustained after Taliban fighters tortured and beat them in custody after they were arrested for reporting on a women's rights protest in Kabul.
"They beat me [for] about 10 minutes until I lost my energy and I swoon[ed]," he said, describing how he lost consciousness. Daryabi is one in a growing list of people who in some way threaten the Taliban's vision for the future — to have felt the militants' wrath since they seized control.
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