THE Taliban has “dismantled” human rights in Afghanistan, an Amnesty International report documenting a litany of abuses in the year since the group seized power has said. 

Hundreds of security personnel and former government officials have been subjected to extrajudicial killings — possibly amounting to war crimes — the report published today claims. 

A brutal crackdown on freedom of expression has seen the fundamentalist group ban peaceful protest, and intimidate, torture and arbitrarily detain journalists who do not “tow the line,” it added.