By: Rukhshana Media
The Taliban had promised to reopen schools for all girls. But that didn’t happen. Girls of secondary and high schools, who returned to their classes for the first time since the Taliban takeover, were sent back home on Wednesday.
Over half a dozen women staged a small protest in Kabul, calling on the Taliban to stop discrimination against women and allow girls to return to their classes.
“The Taliban are the enemy of education,” women chanted in a video sent to Rukhshana Media. “Let the girls go to school, the Taliban are afraid of educated women and we do not accept single-gender governance.”
The protesters said the Taliban have suppressed women protests, imprisoned women, and committed other acts of violence against them since they took power.
“Education, work, and freedom are our undeniable rights, and we call on the Taliban you cannot take our rights hostage,” women protesters said in a statement.
Boys and girls of primary schools have been allowed to return to school.
