Taliban disperse women protesters with gunfire in Kabul

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Taliban disperse women protesters with gunfire in Kabul
AFPPublished September 30, 2021 - Updated about 5 hours ago
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A woman protester scuffles with a member of the Taliban during a demonstration outside a school in Kabul on Thursday. — AFP
The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a small women's rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed.
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 group excluded them from classes earlier this month.
The women 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.

A Taliban fighter (L) makes a hand gesture asking the photojournalists to stop covering a demonstration by women protesters in Kabul on Thursday. — AFP

They 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, AFP journalists saw.
The demonstrators — from a group called the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Activists” — took refuge inside the school.

A member of the Taliban special forces pushes a journalist (L) covering a demonstration by women protesters outside a school in Kabul on Thursday. — AFP

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.

A member of the Taliban speaks with women protesters as another tries to block the view of the camera with his hand during a demonstration held outside a school in Kabul on Thursday. — AFP

It has been almost two weeks since girls were prevented from going to secondary school.
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.

 

[TNT]

There are fassadis who want to get a bloodshed. So many men were caught wearing women dresses, taliban are too lenient, they should have publicly hanged these fasaadis. Taliban patience wont last long and soon these feminist psychos will be put in garbage.

 

[El Sidd]

A group of six women gathered outside a high

The protest gathering was not inclusive.

 

[jamahir]

@FOOLS_NIGHTMARE, you never reply to my tagging of you in such threads about the Taliban's reality.

There are fassadis who want to get a bloodshed. So many men were caught wearing women dresses

Like the Lal Masjid chief ?

There are fassadis who want to get a bloodshed. So many men were caught wearing women dresses, taliban are too lenient, they should have publicly hanged these fasaadis. Taliban patience wont last long and soon these feminist psychos will be put in garbage.

It more seems you are being the psycho here. These women are demanding their basic human rights and you are objecting to those.

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

you never reply to my tagging of you in such threads about the Taliban's reality.

Dear, I am a busy man don't have time to respond to everyone here, mostly I dont. Nevertheless regarding this thread, the Taliban need to show some respect for human rights, otherwise even Pakistan may not be able to recognise them. Human rights, Women rights and a broad base govt are all that is needed for global recognition.

 

[jamahir]

Dear, I am a busy man don't have time to respond to everyone here, mostly I dont. Nevertheless regarding this thread, the Taliban need to show some respect for human rights, otherwise even Pakistan may not be able to recognise them. Human rights, Women rights and a broad base govt are all that is needed for global recognition.

The Taliban aren't the Nasser, Faiz, the Assads etc types to talk about women's rights and providing socio-economic and political rights in general to the masses. The Taliban simply aren't. It is so telling that Western governments invaded Libya and Syria on pretext of human rights abuses there and engaged in regime change operations but are not talking about regime-changing the Taliban government. The Afghan people need liberation, they need progressive Afghan groups like the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan to govern them.