RASC News Agency: A number of women’s protest movements on the eve of August 15; The two years since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, protest conferences were launched in Kabul and several other provinces.
The Purple Saturdays protest movement on Monday, August 14, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Taliban’s resumption of control, protested and raised slogans in the provinces of Ghazni, Balkh, Panjshir and Takhar.
The protestors chanted the slogans “Afghanistani women will never surrender and isolate themselves”, “We will not spare the blood of martyrs”, “We will not submit to force and coercion”, “Right, justice, freedom”, “The Taliban are murderers, their government is invalid”, ” They chanted “Neither to terrorism nor to extremist thoughts” and “Hebatullah, Hebatallah, shame on you, come out“.
Maryam Marouf Arvin, head of the Purple Saturday’s movement, told the media that despite the “threats of the Taliban, the risk of arrest and brutal torture of protesters”, the members of this movement wanted to be the voice of millions of Afghanistani citizens who are imprisoned under the rule of the Taliban group.
The Taliban group does not have the right to protest and express their views against the “misogynist, irreligious and inhumane” policies.
Arvin added: “On the second anniversary of the handover of power to the Taliban, we pledge once again that we will continue our struggle until all the rights and freedoms of the country’s citizens are secured. We believe that under the rule of the Taliban, all Afghanistani citizens, especially women, are victims.”
She asked other women’s protest movements not to limit all the rights and expectations of women and the people of Afghanistan to the reopening of schools and universities, but to fight for a free and democratic Afghanistan against the Taliban group.
According to the Purple Saturday’s Movement, the only solution to the current problems and challenges in Afghanistan is an alternative to the government of the Taliban group, and a government should be formed based on the people’s votes in Afghanistan. To recognize civil, religious and intellectual liberties and ultimately provide social justice.
Meanwhile, members of the Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom held protest meetings in closed places in Kabul and Parwan provinces.
They chanted the slogans “Death to terrorism and their supporters” and “Woman, revolution, freedom”.
According to these protesting women, at the same time with the fall of the republican system, the foundations of people’s lives in Afghanistan collapsed and collective and individual freedoms were lost and “darkness and ignorance” took its place.
These protesting women said: “Afghanistani women are now under the rule of the field courts of a terrorist group, they are always exposed to heavy sentences such as execution, stoning, whipping, forced marriage, underage marriage and deprivation of liberty, all of which cause severe psychological pressure. There have been many thoughts of suicide and personal and social sufferings that have no definition other than the systematic exclusion of women and gender apartheid.
The protesters described the Doha agreement between the United States of America and the Taliban group as disastrous and said that its signing led to the displacement of millions of people, hunger and gender and ethnic apartheid in Afghanistan.
They emphasized that this agreement, as an agreement signed between “a government and a terrorist group”, lacks legitimacy and should be canceled.
Meanwhile, the members of “Kabul Critical School”, which is a group of protesting women, also protested in Kabul.
They said that they have gathered to once again address the owners of democracy and the new world order based on their wrong policy.
This is despite the fact that for several days, the activists and defenders of human rights and women’s rights have held meetings and protests against the Taliban group inside Afghanistan and outside this country.
A day ago, Kabul, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces witnessed similar movements.
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.
