Under Taliban rule, female and male students sit segregated in a university classroom in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Photo: EPA-Yonhap)
Leading human rights groups have accused the Taliban of carrying out a litany of abuses since they took control of Afghanistan last month.
Amnesty International and two other groups say the Taliban have wasted no time in stamping out human rights.
The BBC's Steve Jackson reports.
[Reporter]
Some of the abuses listed on this briefing have already been documented.
But the human rights groups says they are probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Amnesty accuses the Taliban of steadily dismantling all the gains of the last 20 years.
It accuses Taliban forces of killing civilians and surrendering soldiers, blocking aid and restricting freedoms, especially of women.
It says human rights activists are under attack along with journalists and protesters.
The Taliban have tried to suggest they are now different from when they held power in Kabul in the years up to 2001 -- a time of notorious human rights abuses.
But this report suggests the opposite is true.
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