Date: 12/02/1403 Local sources reported the detention of Nasima Sadat, a women's rights activist, by the Taliban in Takhar province. The source confirmed to 8 Sobh newspaper on Thursday, 12 Sawr/1-May-2024, that Nasima Sadat has been held in a Taliban prison in Takhar since last Thursday.

According to the sources, Nasima Sadat has been clandestinely assisting women and girls in rural areas of Takhar for years using a "house-to-house" approach to prevent domestic violence, forced marriages, and underage marriages.

Sources specify that the Taliban detained this women's rights activist from the village of Golmish in Baharak district of Takhar during an awareness campaign aimed at a family intending to marry off their 10-year-old daughter to a local elder. She was transferred to the Taliban's Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

Sources further state that Taliban fighters severely beat several women who had approached the Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice seeking Nasima Sadat's release.

Nasima Sadat is a mother of five children.

Local sources report that women's rights activist Nasima Sadat was arrested by the Taliban in Takhar province on May 1, 2024, and remains detained. She was reportedly targeted for her grassroots work preventing child marriage and domestic violence, and was arrested while intervening in a case involving the forced marriage of a 10-year-old girl.

The arrest of Sadat and the reported assault on supporters seeking her release highlight the Taliban’s escalating repression of female human rights defenders. Her detention for intervening in a case of underage marriage underscores the criminalization of women's advocacy and the systematic erosion of legal protections for those defending personal and family rights. The use of force by the Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice further illustrates the Taliban's disregard for due process and its broader campaign to suppress dissent and gender equality under the guise of moral policing