Taliban committed 1,600 human rights violations in 19 months: UN

UN has recorded over 1,600 incidents of human rights violations against people detained by Taliban authorities in last 19 months ending July 2023, a report showed. Nearly half of them were acts of torture and ill-treatment mostly by police and intelligence agents, it added. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 18 people had died in prisons and custody.