Summary
- Teenage girls and young women arrested by the Taliban for wearing “bad hijab” have reported facing sexual violence and assault in detention.
- Some cases of arrests and sexual abuse led to suicide or attempted suicide among the victims.
- The UN expressed concern over these arrests, where women were detained for not fully covering themselves as per Taliban’s decree.
- The Taliban denies these allegations of sexual assault and insists that there were no arrests for “bad hijab.”