Kabul:
The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a little women’s rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed.
A group of six females gathered outdoors a higher college in eastern Kabul demanding the proper for girls to return to secondary college, just after the hardline Islamist group excluded them from classes earlier this month.
The females unfurled a banner that study “Don’t break our pens, don’t burn our books, don’t close our schools”, prior to Taliban guards snatched it from them.
They pushed back the females protesters as they attempted to continue with the demonstration, though a foreign journalist was hit with a rifle and blocked from filming.
A Taliban fighter also released a short burst of gunfire into the air with his automatic weapon, AFP journalists saw.
The demonstrators — from a group named the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Activists” — took refuge inside the college.
Taliban guard Mawlawi Nasratullah, who led the group and identified himself as the head of particular forces in Kabul, mentioned 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 mentioned.
Isolated rallies with females at the forefront had been staged in cities about the nation just after the Taliban seized energy, such as in the western city of Herat exactly where two people today had been shot dead.
But protests have dwindled considering the fact that the government issued an order that unsanctioned demonstrations and warned of “severe legal action” for violators.
It has been virtually two weeks considering the fact that girls had been prevented from going to secondary college.
The Taliban comply with a strict interpretation of sharia law that segregates males and females, and have also slashed women’s access to work.
They have mentioned they require to establish the proper situations prior to girls can return to the classroom, but several Afghans are sceptical.
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