Taliban cracking down on women

[MsAmerica]

Threatened and Beaten, Afghan Women Defy Taliban With Protests
By David Zucchino and Yaqoob Akbary

Ms. Elham, who says she has not been paid since August, is required to sign in at her old job site once a month — a fiction that allows the Taliban to deny that they have fired female government workers...

Taliban enforcers have roughed up women, beaten them and sprayed them with chemical irritants, activists say. Ms. Elham and others say they have received threatening phone calls from intelligence officers, warning them to stay silent or face unspecified “consequences.”...

Most Afghan girls above the sixth grade have not attended school since August. In September, the Taliban converted the Ministry of Women’s Affairs building into offices for the religious morality police. Last month, the Taliban banned women from taking long journeys without a male relative and from using public transport without a hijab, a type of head scarf.


afghanistanpeacecampaign.org/2022/01/25/threatened-and-beaten-afghan-women-defy-taliban-with-protests/

www.poreg.org/threatened-and-beaten-afghan-women-defy-taliban-with-protests/