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Feb 9 4 tweets 1 min read
The Taliban hosted by yet another European country, even as we still have no news—3 weeks after their disappearance—on whereabouts of 4 women activists & relatives abducted in Kabul after recent women’s rights protests. This was raised with the Taliban in Oslo; they did nothing.
Parwana Ibrahim Khil and Tamana Paryani were abducted with their relatives on Jan. 19. Two more women's rights activists in Kabul were taken last week: Mursal Ayar on Feb. 2 & Dr Zahra Mohammadi—outside her medical clinic—on Feb. 3. We have no information as to their whereabouts.
In Oslo, Afghan activists and international diplomats urged the Taliban to stop arbitrary detention of women activists, forced disappearances, crackdowns on media, extrajudicial killings, torture, prohibiting female education, employment & freedom to travel without male escort.
Yet as noted by the democratically-elected government of Afghanistan, weeks have passed, and "there has been no signal whatsoever of a fundamental shift in the Taliban's stance on these issues."

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Because 68% of its members are non-democracies, including:
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🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇳 China
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇷🇺 Russia
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

I urged the 🇪🇺 EU to oppose these candidates. They did 0.
I urged the EU to oppose China's candidacy to the UNHRC. They were silent. China got elected.
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If Oslo also awarded a Nobel Prize for Terror Appeasement & Worst Selfies in the World, she’d win.
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