Twenty women demonstrate in Kabul for their rights

Twenty Afghan women demonstrated in Kabul on Sunday, May 29, for cries Bread, work, freedom!to protest Taliban restrictions on women’s freedoms in Afghanistan.

“Education is my right! Reopen the schools!”The demonstrators, many of whom wore the niqab, also chanted. They gathered in front of the Ministry of Education.

They walked a few hundred meters before they were stopped by the Taliban in civilian clothes, who had come to disperse the demonstration. ‘We wanted to read a statement but the Taliban wouldn’t allow it’Said one of the participants after the rally. “They took some girls’ cell phones and forbade us from taking pictures or videos of our protest.”she added.

Since their return to powerThe Taliban imposed a series of restrictions on civil society, many of them aimed at subjugating women to their fundamentalist conception of Islam. They have largely excluded women from public employment, restricted their right to travel and They prevented girls from attending middle and high schools.

Serial restrictions

Last entry date from the beginning of MayWhen the government issued a decree ratified by the supreme leader of the Taliban and Afghanistan, Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, requiring women to wear the full veil in public. The Taliban made it clear that their preference was the burqa, this integral veil often blue and interwoven at eye level, but other types of veils revealing only the eyes would be tolerated.

They also felt that unless women had an urgent reason to go out, it would be ‘It’s better for them to stay at home’. These new measures provoked outrage from the international community. On Friday, the Taliban rejected a call from the UN Security Council to cancel these restrictions, according to its ruling ” Incorrect “ Concerns have been expressed on these issues.

Over the course of twenty years, Afghan women gained new freedoms, returning to school or applying for jobs in all sectors of activity, even if the country remained socially conservative.