Afghan media, citing local sources, have reported that Abdul Hakim Shari, the Taliban’s justice minister, dismissed and arrested four Hazara employees of the group’s Justice Directorate in Bamyan following their collective resignation.
According to media reports, the individuals have been in detention since Saturday, August 22, and no detailed information has so far been released about their condition or whereabouts. Sources have claimed that the individuals collectively resigned from their positions after disagreements with the Taliban’s head of the Justice Directorate in Bamyan and the administrative director of the department.
According to these reports, after the employees resigned, they were summoned to Kabul and were subsequently dismissed by Abdul Hakim Shari and detained at a location that sources describe as the justice minister’s “private prison.”
The media have identified three of those detained as Khan Ali Nabi-Zada, Jawad Samimi, and Mohammad Azizi, who worked in fifth- and sixth-grade positions at the Taliban’s Justice Directorate in Bamyan. The identity of the fourth, a service employee, has not been identified in the reports.
Local sources have claimed that Shari considered the collective resignation of these employees to be “defiance” and disobedience and therefore ordered their arrest. It has also been reported that the families of these individuals have no accurate information about their condition.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice and officials of the group in Bamyan have so far made no official statement regarding these allegations.
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