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Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to attend school.
A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after the hardline Islamist group excluded them from classes earlier this month.
Male students have been ordered back to secondary school and university – primary schools having already reopened to boys and girls – but two weeks ago women were told they could not return to education until an ‘Islamic environment’ was in place.
The women today unfurled a banner that read ‘Don’t break our pens, don’t burn our books, don’t close our schools’, before Taliban guards snatched it from them.
The militant thugs pushed back the women protesters as they tried to continue with the demonstration, while a foreign journalist was hit with a rifle and blocked from filming. A Taliban fighter also released a brief burst of gunfire into the air with his automatic weapon in an effort to disperse demonstrators.
The demonstrators – from a group called the ‘Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Activists’ – took refuge inside the school.
Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration outside a school in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to return to secondary education.
Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration outside a school in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to return to secondary education
Taliban guard Mawlawi Nasratullah, who led the group and identified himself as the head of special forces in Kabul, said the demonstrators ‘did not coordinate with security authorities regarding their protest’.
‘They have the right to protest in our country like every other country. But they must inform the security institutes before,’ he said.
Isolated rallies with women at the forefront were staged in cities around the country after the Taliban seized power, including in the western city of Herat where two people were shot dead.
But protests have dwindled since the government issued an order that unsanctioned demonstrations and warned of ‘severe legal action’ for violators.
The Taliban follow a strict interpretation of sharia law that segregates men and women, and have also slashed women’s access to work.
They have said they need to establish the right conditions before girls can return to the classroom, but many Afghans are sceptical.
Taliban-appointed Kabul University chancellor Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat announced the news on Twitter on Tuesday.
‘I give you my words as chancellor of Kabul University,’ Ghairat wrote. ‘As long as a real Islamic environment is not provided for all, women will not be allowed to come to universities or work. Islam first.’
Around 9,460 women study at Kabul University, making up 43 per cent of the student body.
Women had been allowed to continue their university education following the Taliban takeover on August 15, provided they learned in segregated classrooms and covered themselves according the group’s interpretation of Sharia law. ….
Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to attend school.
A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after the hardline Islamist group excluded them from classes earlier this month.
Male students have been ordered back to secondary school and university – primary schools having already reopened to boys and girls – but two weeks ago women were told they could not return to education until an ‘Islamic environment’ was in place.
The women today unfurled a banner that read ‘Don’t break our pens, don’t burn our books, don’t close our schools’, before Taliban guards snatched it from them.
The militant thugs pushed back the women protesters as they tried to continue with the demonstration, while a foreign journalist was hit with a rifle and blocked from filming. A Taliban fighter also released a brief burst of gunfire into the air with his automatic weapon in an effort to disperse demonstrators.
The demonstrators – from a group called the ‘Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Activists’ – took refuge inside the school.
Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration outside a school in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to return to secondary education.
Taliban thugs today pushed women protesters and fired shots in the air to break up a demonstration outside a school in Kabul calling for girls to be allowed to return to secondary education
Taliban guard Mawlawi Nasratullah, who led the group and identified himself as the head of special forces in Kabul, said the demonstrators ‘did not coordinate with security authorities regarding their protest’.
‘They have the right to protest in our country like every other country. But they must inform the security institutes before,’ he said.
Isolated rallies with women at the forefront were staged in cities around the country after the Taliban seized power, including in the western city of Herat where two people were shot dead.
But protests have dwindled since the government issued an order that unsanctioned demonstrations and warned of ‘severe legal action’ for violators.
The Taliban follow a strict interpretation of sharia law that segregates men and women, and have also slashed women’s access to work.
They have said they need to establish the right conditions before girls can return to the classroom, but many Afghans are sceptical.
Taliban-appointed Kabul University chancellor Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat announced the news on Twitter on Tuesday.
‘I give you my words as chancellor of Kabul University,’ Ghairat wrote. ‘As long as a real Islamic environment is not provided for all, women will not be allowed to come to universities or work. Islam first.’
Around 9,460 women study at Kabul University, making up 43 per cent of the student body.
Women had been allowed to continue their university education following the Taliban takeover on August 15, provided they learned in segregated classrooms and covered themselves according the group’s interpretation of Sharia law. ….
