After retaking control of the country in August of 2021, the Taliban has wasted no time reinstating rules that strip away the rights of females.
A week ago, a decree made it illegal for women to speak outside their homes.
Advocate and Afghani refugee Shabnam Safa shares what she thinks of the latest developments in the country:
Afghan women must cover their bodies head-to-toe in thick fabric. Women are banned from working and they also can’t look directly at men they’re not related to by blood.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are banned from attending school after completing the sixth grade.
For activists and refugees like Shabnam Safa, what’s happened since the Taliban came back into power is not surprising.
“They’re protesting now as well this new decree. Their voices are supposed to be silent but they are singing. They are posting videos of themselves singing on social media knowing very well that that could be a death sentence for them,” Safa said.
“It’s just something that we feel really sorry for, but we don’t really want, we’re not driven to action by it. And that needs to change, that needs to that needs to stop,” she said.
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