Kabul: An Afghan model-YouTuber, Ajmal Haqiqi, together with 3 of his colleagues, has been arrested via way of means of the Taliban, accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Quran.
According to Amnesty International, an NGO that specializes in human rights, the Kabul primarily based totally social media influencer published a video on his YouTube channel final week. In it, Quranic verses had been allegedly utilized in a funny way via way of means of him and his 3 different colleagues.
They had been visible guffawing as one in all his colleagues, in a comical voice, recited verses of the Quran in Arabic. Later, on June 5, every other video become published via way of means of Haqiqi, wherein he become visible apologizing for the preceding one, the NGO stated.
However, as in line with Amnesty International, he and 3 of his colleagues had been arrested on expenses of “insulting Islamic sacred values” via way of means of the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence on June 7 and later that day a video ‘confession’ of Haqiqi become launched in which he once more apologized.
A assertion become launched via way of means of Amnesty International on June eight that in part read, “The Taliban need to straight away and unconditionally launch the YouTubers and stop their persisted censorship of individuals who want to freely specific their ideas.”
“Restrictions to the proper to freedom of expression need to be truly supplied via way of means of regulation and be strictly important and proportionate to a valid aim. International human rights regulation does now no longer allow regulations of freedom of expression honestly at the grounds it has the capacity to offend or insult nor for the safety of spiritual ideals or the spiritual sensibilities in their adherents. This incident is a traditional instance of ways the Taliban is developing a weather of worry in Afghanistan via way of means of the use of arbitrary arrests and coercion to pressure human beings into silence,” it persisted.