"Our Prison Is Tighter Every Day": in Afghanistan, Women Arrested and Then Denied to Have Gone Out with Their Faces Uncovered

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Deprived of studies, excluded from many jobs and most places of sociability, Afghan women are now at risk of being arrested if they leave their homes. To protest, they launched a boycott. UnsuccessfullyIn early June, the arrest of several women in the Jibril neighbourhood in Herat by the dreaded police of the "promotion of virtue and prevention of vice" caused panic far beyond this northwestern city of Afghanistan.Three days later, a demonstrati…