Some 25 Afghan women protested outside the embassy in solidarity with the Iranians, with whom they say they share the same struggle. The concentration has not even lasted fifteen minutes
The repression that Iranian women have been undergoing for two weeks was transferred to Afghanistan this Thursday. Taliban soldiers fired shots into the air dispersing a concentration of women demonstrating outside the Iranian embassy in Kabul in solidarity with the Iranians, with whom they say they share the same struggle.
Some 25 Afghan women protested in front of the delegation, shouting “Woman, life, freedom” and carrying banners with slogans such as “Iran has risen, now it’s our turn” or “From Kabul to Iran, say no to the dictatorship. ”
It took barely fifteen minutes for the Taliban to come to disperse the concentration. According to reports from the on-site AFP agency, the soldiers destroyed the posters held by the protesters, who, however, bent down to pick up the pieces to make balls of paper that they threw at the Taliban. The military has also tried to beat protesters with sticks.
Iran has been rocked by mass protests for two weeks after Republican morality police killed Mahsa Amini. The young woman, 22, had been arrested for wearing the veil incorrectly – women are required to wear their hair completely covered in public – and was found dead in police facilities.
Since then, thousands of Iranian citizens, with a special role for women, have taken to the streets to challenge the regime and protest its religious imposition. So far, about 80 people have lost their lives as a result of the repression of the Shia regime, led by the cleric Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic. Several personalities, such as members of the national football team, have shown solidarity with the women.
Since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, there have been several sporadic demonstrations by women in the capital and other cities of the country despite the ban, either due to job loss or to claim the right to work. . Some of them were forcefully repressed and activists who had called for demonstrations were arrested by the Taliban.
After 20 years of war and the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, the country’s new leadership imposed very strict rules on women, especially in public life, and ordered them to wear a full veil in public, preferably the burqa.
They also decreed the segregation of men and women in public parks in Kabul and closed secondary schools for girls in most provinces. The dreaded ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice replaced that of women’s affairs.
On Tuesday, a UN report denounced these “serious restrictions” imposed on women’s rights, especially with regard to secondary education, and called on the Taliban to “immediately” withdraw this measure.
The lifting of these restrictions is an essential condition for official recognition of the Taliban government, the international community reiterates. So far, no country has done that.
Source: La Verdad
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