my guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistan's independent human rights commission. what would morally acceptable engagement look like? shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it's good to be here. it's good to have you here. if i may, i'm going to start with some powerful words of yours. you wrote recently, "i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with "the pain of injustice that women in my country face." of course, since the taliban takeover, you're no longer living in your homeland. you're living here in the uk. does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel? absolutely. i mean, every day i feel like i'm living two different realities at the same time. i wake up in oxford, where i'm a visiting scholar and it's green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. and then i'm all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. and during the day, several times, i have to kind of stop myself and remind myself to be more present, especially around my chil

the afghanistan independent human rights commission began an inquiry into the sas raid of sarkhume.he complaints that was registered to us, there were two civilians killed in sarkhume and seven injured. of the two killed, the first person was killed--was first shot at and injured, and then arrested by australian forces. mark: that person was a villager called haji sardar. shaharzad: the complaint that has been registered with us is that haji sardar was, yes, first injured and then taken away for investigation and was-- died as a result of torture during this investigation. mark: braden chapman was on the sarkhume raid. he's the only australian witness to speak publicly about what happened. braden chapman came upon haji sardar after the afghan had been shot and was being treated by an sas medic. he then saw the wounded man being taken away by an sas operator who we'll call soldier b. mark: where was he shot? braden: through the leg, but it was-- it wasn't life-threatening. and the medic, once he'd put bandages and stuff on him, he was good to go. mark: so, this guy's got a leg wound.

my guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistan's independent human rights commission.ve you here. if i may, i'm going to start with some powerful words of yours. you wrote recently, "i spend every day with a fire burning "in my heart with the pain of injustice that women

that on september 25, during the current 54th session of the un human rights council, the so-called independent international commissionreport on the results of its activities, voiced by its chairman, a representative of norway, accusations that we cannot qualify as anything other than groundless and unsubstantiated against the russian authorities, recognized, among other things, to discredit russian military personnel, they, in principle, do not stand up to any critics. the commission's speculative conclusions are based on unsubstantiated stories from randomly selected individuals positioning themselves as victims of eyewitnesses who allegedly had crime scene of the russian armed forces. let me remind you how many years, not just once, but for years, we insisted that representatives, well, in particular of crimea... non-governmental organizations that work in the region had the opportunity to tell, in particular, in the united nations, in the security council in others, in other bodies of this international structure, about the results of their work, we were always denied, moreover, we were also later threatened and r

entirely true, the human rights council did not call for this to be done, this is a call, or a remark, made in the speech of the chairman of the independent international commissionf inquiry in ukraine, the norwegian erik messiah, he really had such a call there, this was made during the presentation of his oral report to the human rights council, but frankly speaking, this was done just for the sake of saying a word, because all the rest of his speech was devoted to alleged violations on the part of russia and, moreover, a written report, which was presented by him in august, about the activities of his... 170 pages, of which only a few were devoted to violations and crimes with side of the armed forces of ukraine, and the rest of the report was directed against russia, accusing russia of violating human rights and so on, so there is no way to say that there is some kind of balanced approach, a balanced assessment of the situation in ukraine. and we actually didn’t expect anything else from him, because initially the idea of ​​this commission, of course, was anti-russian , its task was to blame russia in every possible way, so this point needs to be taken into a

and i think for me, what was most acute was when an independent body in this country, the equalities and human rights commissionppened under his leadership in the found the the labour party and found the party been guilty of party to been guilty of breaching the equality act of being perpetrated and harassment and intimidation of its jewish members , and also the fact that members, and also the fact that under his leadership there was direct political interference in what was going on. so you shouldn't run for mayor of london. well, let's be very clear. not going to be clear. he's not going to be running labour candidate. running as a labour candidate. no, he run at all? no, but should he run at all? well, i mean, after these findings, well, there's nothing to from running to stop anyone from running as candidates morally, candidates unless they morally, morally, course, should morally, of course, he should for there's loads of jewish >> there's loads of jewish people living in london. >> of course should. but. but >> of course he should. but. but let's very clear. he's not let's be very clear. he's not going o

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independent commission of inquiry on ukraine says investigators have found continued evidence of war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. the commission's chair erik mose testified to the u.n. human rights commission in geneva on monday. >> the use of torture by russian armed forces in areas under their control has been widespread and systematic. further, the commission has found russian soldiers raped and committed sexual violence against women of ages ranging from 19 to 83 years, often together with threats of commission or other violations. amy: in immigration news, mexico has accepted demands from the biden administration to start deporting migrants who are apprehended in northern mexican border cities back to their home countries. mexico's government has also agreed to enforce over a dozen policies to block migrants and asylum seekers from reaching the united states. this comes as u.s. immigration officials have reported a sharp increase in the number of people attempting to cross the u.s.-mexico border in recent weeks as thousands seek protection from violence, conflict, extreme poverty, and the impacts of the climate crisis. the mayor of el paso, texas, has said his city is at a

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