RASC News Agency: Two Afghanistani women’s rights activists announced that they have gone on a hunger strike in front of the parliament of the country in order to recognize the gender apartheid imposed by the Taliban.
Hoda Khomosh and Mina Rafiq, women’s rights activists, said that they started their hunger strike on Thursday, September 7.
These two women’s rights activists added that they have received permission from the Norwegian police to hold a civil protest in front of the parliament of this country until 12 September this year.
They said that they started this movement to support the demands of women’s rights activists in the city of Cologne, Germany.
Seven days ago, on September 1, Tamana Zaryab Paryani and a number of other human rights activists from Afghanistan and Iran went on a hunger strike demanding the recognition of gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
Stopping financial aid to the Taliban group and releasing political prisoners in Afghanistan are among their other demands.
This civil movement has been accompanied by a wide wave of sympathy and support from human rights activists, artists and civil activists in Afghanistan and abroad.
Three days ago, Masouma Ayoubi from Kabul and Sabera Akbari from Islamabad announced that they will go on a hunger strike together with women’s rights activists in Germany.
Sabera Akbari, an Afghanistani women’s rights activist from Islamabad, said on Thursday, September 7, that at least 10 Afghanistani women’s rights activists have been on hunger strike in Pakistan for the past two days.
Akbari added that these ten women wanted to set up a protest tent in the city of Islamabad; but the police of this city did not allow them to set up the tent.
Referring to the hunger strike of Afghanistani female activists, the human rights organization known as “Freedom Now” said that the Taliban group has imposed 64 prohibitions in the last two years, which excludes women from the public sphere.
This organization has said that it expresses solidarity with Afghanistani women who are “bravely fighting for their rights”. “Freedom Now” organization also asked the international community to take immediate action in response to the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.
