Taliban banned women and families from going to restaurants, gardens, and parks in the Herat province of Afghanistan.
According to foreign news agencies, the ban was imposed by the Taliban in Herat province. In Herat, women are also banned from eating in hotels, while men are exempt from this restriction.
The Taliban administration in Herat says that the ban on women and families in the gardens and parks adjacent to the hotel has been imposed due to complaints from religious clerics.
Scholars say that women go into restaurants, gardens, and parks without properly covering themselves. It is pertinent to mention here that selling foreign films, TV shows, and music DVDs is also banned in Herat.
The Taliban has faced criticism from the international community for banning women from going to university and working after taking power in August 2021.
Last month, Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize from Pakistan, pleaded with the Taliban administration to free Matiullah Wesa, an activist for education who was recently detained in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
Malala was particularly concerned about Wesa’s detention since he had been operating mobile libraries and classrooms in Afghanistan to educate both boys and girls.
The outspoken proponent of education, who herself escaped a Taliban murder attempt in 2012, protested Wesa’s imprisonment and called it an attack on education. The continuous fight in Afghanistan for the right to an education, particularly for girls and young women in the face of Taliban rule, is highlighted by Malala’s appeal for Wesa’s release.
Malala criticized the Taliban’s prohibition on girls’ education and their detention of advocates for education like Wesa in a tweet on Tuesday. She pleaded with the Taliban to free him and everyone else who had been detained for helping to educate youngsters.
Wesa’s brother said that the 30-year-old education activist has been the target of threats because of his work with PenPath to promote education for Afghan women. While the authorities have not released information about the incident, it is also said that his home was raided during his detention.
Wesa was one of Afghanistan’s best-known education campaigners, fighting for girls’ education rights since the Taliban forbade female education in 2021. He had posted a picture of PenPath volunteers pleading for their daughters’ Islamic rights to education on the day of his detention.
According to foreign news agencies, the ban was imposed by the Taliban in Herat province. In Herat, women are also banned from eating in hotels, while men are exempt from this restriction.
The Taliban administration in Herat says that the ban on women and families in the gardens and parks adjacent to the hotel has been imposed due to complaints from religious clerics.
Scholars say that women go into restaurants, gardens, and parks without properly covering themselves. It is pertinent to mention here that selling foreign films, TV shows, and music DVDs is also banned in Herat.
The Taliban has faced criticism from the international community for banning women from going to university and working after taking power in August 2021.
Last month, Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize from Pakistan, pleaded with the Taliban administration to free Matiullah Wesa, an activist for education who was recently detained in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
Malala was particularly concerned about Wesa’s detention since he had been operating mobile libraries and classrooms in Afghanistan to educate both boys and girls.
The outspoken proponent of education, who herself escaped a Taliban murder attempt in 2012, protested Wesa’s imprisonment and called it an attack on education. The continuous fight in Afghanistan for the right to an education, particularly for girls and young women in the face of Taliban rule, is highlighted by Malala’s appeal for Wesa’s release.
Malala criticized the Taliban’s prohibition on girls’ education and their detention of advocates for education like Wesa in a tweet on Tuesday. She pleaded with the Taliban to free him and everyone else who had been detained for helping to educate youngsters.
Wesa’s brother said that the 30-year-old education activist has been the target of threats because of his work with PenPath to promote education for Afghan women. While the authorities have not released information about the incident, it is also said that his home was raided during his detention.
Wesa was one of Afghanistan’s best-known education campaigners, fighting for girls’ education rights since the Taliban forbade female education in 2021. He had posted a picture of PenPath volunteers pleading for their daughters’ Islamic rights to education on the day of his detention.