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Amnesty International Protests Against Taliban's Arrival in Brussels: "Rolling Out the Red Carpet Is Unacceptable"

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Amnesty International will soon protest in Brussels, together with other human rights organizations, against a visit by representatives of the Taliban. They are coming to our country shortly at the invitation of the European Commission to negotiate the return of Afghan asylum seekers. “Rolling out the red carpet for cooperation with the Taliban is unacceptable.”

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Amnesty International will soon protest in Brussels, together with other human rights organizations, against a visit by representatives of the Taliban. They are coming to our country shortly at the invitation of the European Commission to negotiate the return of Afghan asylum seekers. “Rolling out the red carpet for cooperation with the Taliban is unacceptable.”

·Antwerp, Belgium
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Nearly 50 Afghan civil society, human rights and women’s protest movements have called on the European Union to stop interacting with the Taliban and deporting migrants in a joint letter. The letter, which was published by the human rights organization “Rodarai” today (Thursday, June 18), was written by 47 organizations to the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, the Representative of the European Union fo…

BELGA Belgium received the first three visa applications for a delegation from the Taliban regime and was still waiting for two more, said the Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot, in the House Committee on Wednesday. The Head of Diplomacy stated that he did not agree with this invitation from the European Commission but that he could not oppose it. In May, the European Commission announced its "intention to invite Taliban officials to Brussels soon …

On Wednesday, 17 June, some 200 activists and representatives of multiple civil society organisations, as well as members of the Afghan diaspora in Belgium, gathered in the Place du Throne, not far from the cabinet of the Minister for Asylum and Migration, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, in order to demand that Belgium and the European Union should not cooperate with the Taliban in any way, in particular to facilitate the return of Afghans to their countr…

On Wednesday, June 17, representatives of civil society organizations will gather together with members of the Afghan diaspora at the Place du Trône in Brussels, close to the cabinet of Minister for Asylum and Migration Anneleen Van Bossuyt. They demand an unequivocal rejection of any form of cooperation between Belgium, the European Union, and the Taliban regime.

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vrt broke the news in Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
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