RASC News Agency: On Saturday, August 12, as the second anniversary of the Taliban group’s resumption of control over Afghanistan approached, dozens of women protested in several provinces of Afghanistan.
Women protesting against what they call the United States’ forgetfulness towards the people of Afghanistan, the misogynist policies of the Taliban group, and the lobbying of some people for this group, marched and demonstrated in Kabul.
These protesters chanted “warning, forgetful America, criminal seeker” and said that no diversity is acceptable in the logic of the Taliban group.
However, these women’s protests were canceled after a few minutes, at the Hungarian intersection in Kabul city, due to the fact that members of the Taliban group were stationed on the roads.
Zakia Zahadat, one of the protestors, told the media that a large number of women had been arranged to come to the streets of Kabul today and protest in front of the office of the United Nations Deputy Delegation in New City of Kabul, but due to the increase in security problems, the women could not attend there.
Zahadat added: “Our overall goal of launching this protest was that the world should stand by the people of Afghanistan, especially the Afghanistani women protestors, and not support the Taliban.
The Taliban is a terrorist group that came with the occupation and took over Afghanistan.” »
Taranam Saeedi, another protester, said that a group of members of women’s protest movements were supposed to launch a mass demonstration in Kabul, but this plan was somehow revealed and the Taliban group had taken strict security measures in the specified area and because of the women’s immunity, mass demonstrations were cancelled.
There are also reports of the arrest of some protesting women by the Taliban group; but the sources confirmed that one of them was released on guarantee.
However, the protesting women in Kabul said that they will continue their struggle until the end of the rule of the Taliban group in Afghanistan and asked the international community to join them.
In Takhar province, the members of the protest movement took to the roads and chanted the slogans “Bread, work, freedom”, “Death to the oppressor, be it Talib or lobbyist”, “Warning, warning, forgetful world”, “Talib commits crimes, America supports” They sang “may do”.
Parisa Mubarez, one of the protesting women, said that the purpose of launching the demonstration of 25 protesters was because of the non-recognition of the Taliban group.
“We protested without any logo or banner,” she said. In general, our protests were due to the week of solidarity against the Taliban group, this [protest] was held by protesters inside and outside of Afghanistan.
In Badakhshan province, women also protested in a closed place and chanted similar slogans.
On the eve of the second year of Taliban rule over Afghanistan, civil activists and defenders of human rights and women’s rights called for the participation of Afghanistani citizens in domestic and foreign demonstrations against the Taliban.
According to these civil activists and human rights defenders, during the past two years, the Taliban group has committed “war crimes, crimes against humanity, gender and ethnic apartheid, forced relocations and migrations, genocide, racial discrimination and terroristization of Afghanistan’s geography” She remained silent against the actions of this group.
These activists and defenders have planned demonstrations and protests in different countries under the name “Week of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan against the terrorist and fascist Taliban group” from August 13 to 20.
In the call of these activists and human rights defenders, it is stated that “recognizing the Taliban is legitimizing global terrorism, women’s rights are human rights, interaction with the Taliban is violence against humanity.”
They have also asked the countries of the world to recognize “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan and cancel the Doha Agreement, which led to the “misery of the Afghanistani people”.
