UN rights chief calls for immediate repeal of Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ law in Afghanistan
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called Tuesday for the Taliban’s recently enacted “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” law in Afghanistan to be repealed. A spokesperson for Türk, Ravina Shamdasani, condemned the new law as “utterly intolerable,” demanding, “[w]e call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which […]
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