Afghan refugees deported by Iran are waiting to board a bus in a makeshift camp in Kabul on July 16, … more
On July 18, 2025, several United Nations experts, including Richard Bennett, Specialist rapporteur on human rights status in AfghanistanMay Sato, Specialist rapporteur on the state of human rights in the Islamic Republic of IranGehad Madi, Specialist rapporteur for human rights of immigrantsand Paula Gaviria Betancurly, Special rapporteur on human rights of internal displaced peopleWas published a statement condemning the ongoing deportations and mass forced yields of Afghan nationals from Iran and Pakistan and other countries. As the statement said, “more than 1.9 million Afghans have returned or had to return to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan so far in 2025. More than 300,000 people have returned from Pakistan and over 1.5 million from Iran, including 40,000, including 410,000. Documentation.
In August 2025, it will be four years since the Taliban took power (on August 15, 2021). What followed the acquisition can only be described as a total reversal of the progress in the country during the twenty years of the Afghan Republic and the return of terrorism. Gross human rights violations have become a common incident with atrocities’ crimes against ethnic and religious minorities, gender persecutions, and apartheid of gender, out -of -court murders, impositions, and other experts. Women and girls are systematically deprived of their fundamental rights to the point where they are effectively limited to the four walls of their homes. Former security and government officials, including judges and prosecutors, those who criticize the Taliban policies, such as human rights defenders and journalists, as well as religious and ethnic minorities, are at particular and more serious.
By any decision taken so far, the in fact Authorities in Afghanistan ensure that there are no human rights and no sustainable opposition to the Taliban – so that their kingdom can continue without the slightest criticism. The Taliban resorted to inhumane punishments, including capital and physical penalties, which are often publicly imposed to terrorize the Afghan population. Among other things, in April 2025, four men were executed publicly as part of the Taliban Gauge (Disable in kind – reference to religious law) – the achievement of the total number of public executions mentioned since the Taliban occupied August 2021 in August 2021 at least 10.
Afghanistan is not a safe country and Russia officially recognizes the Taliban, as the Afghan government will not change. As the United Nations experts underlined, “those who are forced to return have genuine fears of their safety and security and face very real risks of prosecution, threats and violent retaliation.
Forced returns can violate the principle of non -recreation. In addition, as the United Nations experts warned, “states, due to the enormous quantity and strong nature of returns, cannot ensure that Afghan nationals have access to fair processes where their individual protection needs are fully assessed.
Poor situation in Afghanistan requires an increased humanitarian reaction to Afghanistan and host countries to cope with international protection needs – not the opposite as he recently saw. As people have been involved in one of the worst refugee crises for years, as it is exacerbated by any new conflict and state of concern, we cannot abandon the order based on rules aimed at securing human answers in such situations.
