RASC News Agency: A number of female beauticians who worked in this bazaar of Bamyan and started selling handicrafts after the beauty salons were closed, say that the members of the Taliban group beat them, arrested them, tortured them and fined them.
They say that the Taliban group found nail polish and lipstick in their bags and beat and arrested them on the charge of applying make-up to a girl.
On Tuesday morning (August 8) in this market, a girl who came from Kabul to Bamyan, went to one of the clothing and handicraft shops. A shop that used to be a women’s hairdressing shop until a few days ago, and after that, according to witnesses, members of the Taliban group entered their shop and said that you had done make-up on the pretext of buying this girl’s clothes.
The manager of one of the industrial shops in Bamyan bazaar, which had a women’s beauty salon until a few days ago, says: “Because this lady wore makeup, they said that you did her makeup, otherwise we did not wear makeup and there were no cosmetics in our shop.” They even cleaned the girls’ handkerchief and found lipstick and nail color inside it and said that you applied makeup.
The girls raised their hands, threatened, harassed, and cursed. They said to beat them harder and put them in a cage. We really don’t understand what will happen to us hairdressers?”
One of these female beauticians says that they took pictures of being tortured and beaten by the Taliban group, but the Taliban group deleted all their pictures and warned them that they should not carry cosmetics in their bags after this.
The manager of another industrial shop in Bamyan bazaar said: “Because they raised their hands on us, they subjected us to violence and insults.
We had documents and took videos, and all the people in the bazaar had seen them, but when they took us to the court, the videos they deleted us and even told us to break their mobile phones. They said to let them stay here at night so that we will not harm them.”
These girls and women say that they do not see any door in front of them to raise their voices.
One of the women who used to be a beautician adds: “They really threatened us today. They even told one of the girls that we left her in Mergence and that she should stay here for two nights before we harm her. We really do not have any authority to refer to when we are faced with such troubles. Who is responsible for the pressures that come to us? We cannot go anywhere, nor can we stay here.”
Mawloda Tawana, The women’s rights activist believes: “The product of all the miseries of the people and women of Afghanistan has been America and imperialist countries, and today a number of people want to shamelessly throw dust in the eyes of our people.”
The Taliban group recently implemented the order to stop the operation of women’s beauty salons across the country, an order that is said to have made at least 60,000 women and girls unemployed and 12,000 women’s businesses.
