{"id":98817,"date":"2023-11-30T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=98817"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:12:59","slug":"hrw-criticizes-pakistans-mistreatment-of-afghans-claims-of-sexual-harassment-of-afghan-migrant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/uncategorized\/98817-hrw-criticizes-pakistans-mistreatment-of-afghans-claims-of-sexual-harassment-of-afghan-migrant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW criticizes Pakistan&#8217;s mistreatment of Afghans, claims of &#8220;sexual harassment&#8221; of Afghan migrant women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistani police are facing accusations of unlawfully detaining, beating, extorting and sexually harassing Afghan refugees as part of a coercive campaign aimed at compelling them to return to their home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolice and other officials have carried out mass detentions, seized property and livestock, and destroyed identity documents to expel thousands of Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers,\u201d U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfghan women told Human Rights Watch that Pakistani police had sometimes sexually harassed some Afghan women and girls and threatened them with sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesty International has also reported on the trauma experienced by refugee women during police night raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany women are sleeping fully covered [in veils] because they are afraid of nighttime police raids by male police officers,\u201d the U.K.-based rights organization said, quoting a female human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghans in need of visa extensions in Pakistan are reportedly required to pay fines exceeding $800, while others have reported extortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Nations human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk has expressed alarm at these reports and urged Islamabad to cease the deportation campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/000_33ZN6HVresized_0-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/000_33ZN6HVresized_0-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/000_33ZN6HVresized_0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/000_33ZN6HVresized_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/000_33ZN6HVresized_0.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani police are facing accusations of unlawfully detaining, beating, extorting and sexually harassing Afghan refugees as part of a coercive campaign aimed at compelling them to return to their home country. \u201cPolice and other officials have carried out mass detentions, seized property and livestock, and destroyed identity documents to expel thousands of Afghan refugees and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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