Taliban detaines six staff of human right group

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have “forcibly disappeared” six staff members of a local organisation working on women’s and children’s rights, a US-based advocacy group said, following a separate UN report that two Afghan employees of its mission in the country were detained.

The reported detentions come as Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of their return to power on Saturday.

The six men — employees of the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation - were detained after they were told to come to their office to retrieve confiscated laptops and phones, Human Rights Watch said.