The Afghanistan Women’s Powerful Movement, in reaction to the Taliban’s widespread internet shutdown, stated that this action is not a technical restriction but a deliberate tool to hide the Taliban’s crimes and silence the voices of Afghan women.

The Women’s Political Participation Network of Afghanistan, in a statement, described four years of Taliban rule as a period of “systematic violation of the fundamental rights of the people and the taking hostage of the future of a nation.”

Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, warned in a UN Security Council meeting that the Taliban’s policies against women and girls have placed the country in the face of “the greatest social and economic crisis.”

Human Rights Activist Union, in a statement, strongly condemned the Taliban’s action of cutting widespread internet services in Afghanistan and described it as a “direct attack on freedom of expression, access to information, and the fundamental right of people to connect with the outside world.”