News Center - In August 2022, Elaha Dilawarzai, an Afghan medical student, released a video claiming that she was subjected to rape, torture and forced marriage by Qari Saeed Khosty, former spokesperson for the Taliban’s interior ministry.

She has been kept in Taliban prison for 54 days. Her family sent a letter to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). In the letter, the family asked UNAMA to support the release of their daughter from the Taliban prison. The family also stressed that has been tortured in the Taliban prison.

On November 25, 2022, her family had sent a letter to the UNAMA and informed them that their daughter had been kidnapped in Pakistan and taken to Afghanistan.

What happened?

Elaha Delawarzai, an Afghan medical student, released a video in August 2022. In the video, she said she was subjected to rape, torture and forced marriage by Qari Saeed Khosty, former spokesperson for the Taliban’s interior ministry. She was arrested at a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul a few months after they returned to power.

“He was raping me every night. Every night he would beat and torture me. After publishing this video, it’s possible that no one will see me again, I might die. It is better to die once than to die a thousand times,” Elaha Dilawarzai said in the video.