RASC News Agency: The hunger strike of a number of human rights activists and women’s rights defenders in Cologne, Germany, in response to the Taliban group’s pressure and discrimination against women and the arrest of the country’s citizens by this group entered the second night.
Tamana Zaryab Paryani, one of these protesters, on Saturday night, September 2, announced on the X social page that she spent the second night of the hunger strike.
Paryani wrote: “The only bright tent in the middle of the night is forgotten in the darkness of Afghanistan.”
During a call, these women’s rights activists said that the people of Afghanistan have been under torture, suffering and violence for two years, and women have been deprived of their human rights because of their gender.
This strike started on Friday, September 1, and is scheduled to continue for 12 days.
The United Nations Women’s Division said not long ago that the Taliban group has issued at least 50 restrictive decrees on Afghanistani women since their resumption of rule over Afghanistan.
Since their domination of the country, the Taliban group has blocked the gates of secondary and high schools and universities to girls, and prohibited the work of women and girls in government offices and non-governmental organizations, including the offices of the United Nations.
The group also banned women from traveling without a veil, banned them from going to amusement parks, public baths, and sports clubs, and blocked women’s beauty salons.
However, the Taliban group claims that the rights of women and girls are respected within the framework of Islamic Sharia.
