The Taliban are intensifying assaults in response to women’s rights campaigns in Afghanistan and Iran, and amid their own struggle to consolidate power.
across Kabul, demanding to inspect female students’ clothing. They forced the students to lift their long skirts and robes to show their garments underneath. Where the enforcers found girls or women wearing Western-style pants, they beat them with electrical cables, the women said.In public elementary schools, the Taliban have been appointing women, trained in the regime’s approved madrassas, as teachers and principals.
“My fifth-grade daughter was beaten by Taliban for not having her face covered” in her classroom, a mother in Kabul told USIP. “She is terrified to go outside and refuses to attend school.”
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