How Herat Defied the Taliban Regime, Chanting ‘Women, Work and Freedom’
Witnesses said Taliban police fired on a rare mixed-gender protest after arresting women for hijab violations, and medics reported 2 deaths.
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How Herat defied the Taliban regime, chanting ‘women, work and freedom’
The protests in the Afghan city in the first week of June were triggered by the enforcement of a dress code, which requires women to wear burqa in public; many women, including those wearing traditional Afghan wear of manto, were arrested, but released later as entire communities protested
Two women killed in peaceful protest in Afghanistan
By Flora Drury & BBC AfghanTaliban police used live fire to disperse a rare protest against the detention of women accused of violating strict Islamic dress codes in the western Afghan city of Herat, witnesses and protesters said.Medics told the BBC two people died, but did not specify how. A number of others at the protest were injured.Both men and women had taken to the streets days after local Taliban government officials reportedly began arr…
A violent repression by Taliban security forces left at least two dead and more than twenty injured in Herat, after police opened fire on a crowd defending more than twenty women arrested...
The Taliban have launched a new campaign in western Afghanistan against women who they say do not follow the prescribed veiling. They are stopping women in the streets without gloves or socks. The move has sparked an unusual wave of protests in the city of Herat, which have been met with a heavy crackdown by security forces. At least two people have been killed and dozens more have been detained.
Dozens of women were arrested last week in the western Afghan city of Herat, accused by the Taliban of violating a dress code. The ensuing protest was brutally suppressed by security forces. The case has also reached the UN Security Council, and local accounts say the Taliban have continued to intimidate women and their families.
Like hell on earth, women in Afghanistan's Herat province describe their daily lives following a tightening of the rules on their dress code. Taliban officials in the area only allow them to get out with their bodies completely veiled and without makeup. According to locals, they also arrest those who comply with the ordinance and brutally silence any protests.
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