{"id":19245,"date":"2026-08-08T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/un-calls-immediate-release-six-detained-human-rights-workers-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:50:23","slug":"un-calls-immediate-release-six-detained-human-rights-workers-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/un-calls-immediate-release-six-detained-human-rights-workers-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Special Rapporteur Urges Immediate Release of Six Detained Human Rights Workers in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for the immediate release of six employees of the Women and Children\u2019s Rights Research Foundation detained in Kabul. On Friday, August 7, Bennett expressed deep concern over their continued detention on his X page, noting that 21 days after their arrest, no charges have been brought against them in court. He described the detention as &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; and voiced serious worries about their conditions. According to reports, Taliban administration forces recently raided the foundation\u2019s office in Kabul, detaining six staff members and confiscating office equipment. So far, no official details have been released regarding the reasons for their detention or their legal status. The ongoing detention of staff from an organization active in women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights comes amid increasing restrictions on civil society and human rights groups following the Taliban\u2019s return to power, raising widespread international concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights expert calls for the immediate release of six detained Afghan women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s rights workers in Kabul after 21 days without charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}