Open letter to Elon Musk: Sanction the Taliban
Dozens of journalists, civil and political activists, academics and government officials have previously called on Elon Musk to sanction members of the group for what they see as the Taliban’s promotion of terrorism using the Twitter platform.
On Thursday, the 23rd of Cancer, they sent an open letter to Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, saying that the Taliban were using the platform to spread their violent thoughts.
They told Elon Musk that allowing the Taliban to use the social network would weaken the platform’s position in the world.
The letter reads: “We urge you to act immediately and ban the Taliban from using Twitter. A recent UN report found that the Taliban have maintained symbiotic relationships with global terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda.
In the open letter of civil and political activists and journalists, it is also stated that the Taliban and the Haqqani network have a long history of violence and human rights violations in Afghanistan, journalists have suppressed their activists and opponents and imposed an atmosphere of fear on the people. People.
In this letter, Saeed Khosti, the former spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Taliban and a senior member of the Haqqani network, also mentioned the misuse of Twitter, as he had recently threatened the opponents of the Taliban regime with death in a tweet.
In another part of the letter sent by activists, journalists and academics, it is stated: Banning the terrorist networks of Taliban and Haqqani on Twitter shows your position against the violence of terrorism.
This letter was sent to the owner of Twitter while the Taliban have been using this social network without any restrictions as a base for their propaganda for several years.
