Twenty of them demonstrated this Sunday in front of Kabul University shouting “Equality and justice!” and showing posters that prayed “Women’s rights, human rights“, according to a journalist from the AFP news agency.
Taliban fighters arrived at the scene in several vehicles and dispersed them using pepper spray, some of the protesters said.
The Islamist group has banned unauthorized street protests and often forcibly disperses those calling for women’s rights.
The new authorities have prevented many Afghan women from returning to work in the civil service, and in some cases girls are turned away from schools.
“When we were near the university, three vehicles arrived and the Taliban sprayed us with pepper spray,” denounced one of the protesters who asked not to be identified for security reasons, quoted by the Italian agency ANSA.
Two other protesters reported that one of the women was taken to the hospital after the spray caused an allergic reaction in her eyes and face, while one of the repressors seized the cell phone of a man who was filming the protest.
The women’s claim came after the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice issued orders this week in Kabul ordering Afghan women to cover their bodies.
The Ministry had also prohibited women from traveling on public transport without having their faces covered.
Source From: Ambito
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