Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban security forces in Afghanistan’s capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses.have ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. Video obtained by The Associated Press shows some women weeping and consoling each other outside one university in Kabul on Wednesday, the first day of the ban.
Journalists saw Taliban forces outside four Kabul universities Wednesday. The forces stopped some women from entering, while allowing others to go in and finish their work. They also tried to prevent any photography, filming and protests from taking place. Members of an activist group called the Unity and Solidarity of Afghanistan Women gathered outside the private Edrak University in Kabul on Wednesday morning, chanting slogans in Dari.
They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.
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