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US envoy warns against normalizing relations with IEA
Amiri made the remarks on X while criticizing the IEA’s ban against UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennet visiting Afghanistan and the recent ratification of the law on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice.
Rina Amiri, US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, on Saturday called on the international community not to normalize relations with the Islamic Emirate unless there is a profound improvement in their human rights conduct.
Amiri made the remarks on X while criticizing the IEA’s ban against UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennet visiting Afghanistan and the recent ratification of the law on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice.
She said that these moves make clear that the IEA is “doubling down on the extreme policies they imposed in the 1990s.”
“It is a normative, economic, and security imperative for the international community to hold the line and not normalize relations with the Taliban (IEA) unless there is a profound improvement in their human rights conduct,” Amiri said.
The Islamic Emirate has repeatedly emphasized that laws in Afghanistan are based on Sharia.
It has also said that the reason for the ban on Bennet is because he makes propaganda against the country.