About 40 women protested in the streets of the capital to demand the right to work and education
Nearly a year after Islamists took power in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal, the country’s citizens have reversed their rights and freedoms. In a new case of these restrictions, the Taliban fired and fired at a demonstration of dozens of women protesting in the streets of the capital, Kabul, this Saturday, shouting “Food, work and freedom”.
Carrying a banner that read ‘August 15 is a black day’ (referring to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul last year), some 40 women marched to the Ministry of Education. About five minutes into the march to demand the right to work and education, a group of fighters armed with assault rifles dispersed them by firing bursts into the air.
According to communications agencies, some protesters took refuge in nearby shops until the uniformed men chased them and beat them with rifle butts. “We are locked in a pharmacy, they locked us up here,” complained one of the participants in a video verified by the Dutch DPA. Several women were injured during the performance, according to the NGO Afghan Peace Watch.
The mobilization took place on the occasion of the first anniversary of the recapture of the Taliban, on August 15, 2021. Since then, Islamists have been accused of restricting political freedoms and human rights across the country and a campaign of oppression and discrimination against minorities and the vulnerable. populations. In this sense, they have reacted violently to all of the protests by women, such as the one that took place last May, when they denounced the closure of secondary schools for girls.
Source: La Verdad
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