Afghan women embrace after Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities, in the latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms.
by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by The Associated Press showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus in Kabul.
Afghan women weep outside Edrak University in Kabul, after Taliban security forces enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. 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.
On Wednesday, to protest the Taliban's decision, some male university teachers resigned from their jobs, and dozens of male students walked out of exams, submitting blank papers, CBS News' Ahmad Mukhtar reports. Sifatullah Bahij, a male lecturer at Kabul's Polytechnic University, said,"I have served the faculty of Civil Engineering in KPU for over 8 years, but despite rich experience and a Ph.D., I don't wish to continue working somewhere where there is organized discrimination against innocent and talented girls of this country by those in power."
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