A group of women took to the streets in the city of Herat in Afghanistan, protesting against a Taliban order this week suspending all female students from attending university
Video footage circulating on social media showed Taliban officials using a water cannon to disperse the female protesters. Girls could be seen running from the water cannon and chanting “cowards” at officials. The Taliban’s announcement this week that it was suspending university education for female students was its latest step in an ongoing clampdown on the freedoms of Afghan women.
One university official told CNN that the students’ decision to boycott their admissions exams would lead to classes being put on hold. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 in a lightning takeover following the withdrawal of US troops, having previously ruled the country from 1996 until 2001 – when the US-led invasion forced the group from power. Under its previous period of rule the group was notorious for its treatment of women as second-class citizens.
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