Ihr Browser oder Adblocker verhindert dies momentan. On Aug. Since then, their central objective has been to erase women from public life. One of their first moves was to bar girls from attending school beyond sixth grade. As a result, Afghanistan has seen no female high school or university graduates in recent years. The Taliban have imposed ever-tightening restrictions, including a ban on women working β forcing the closure of female-run bakeries. Both local and international NGOs have been prohibited from training female staff.
Women are forbidden from appearing on radio or television programs hosted by men, playing sports or traveling abroad without a male guardian mahram. In October , the Taliban went further, enacting a law that forbids women from speaking to one another in public.
Their voices are not to be heard by other women even during prayers. Several Afghan men and women, both inside the country and abroad, contributed to this article. Among them are Soraya and Sediqqua. Like all other names, theirs have been changed. Her mother had died a year after the fall of the Afghan government. As long as I wore my hijab, no one bothered me.
Sediqqua recounts her trip to Mazar and Kabul with her son and grandchildren. Asked whether conditions had improved and whether her grandchildren could study in Afghanistan, she responds: Β«Well, I think education is an issue that extends far beyond Afghan politics. Conversations with Soraya and Sediqqua suggest that the Taliban are deliberately treating members of the diaspora more leniently in an effort to boost their legitimacy.
By doing so, they turn visitors into unwitting propaganda tools, reinforcing the narrative that Afghanistan is better off under their rule. The accounts of those still living in Afghanistan paint a grim picture. Ghamai, a young Afghan journalist, describes life under Taliban rule as a prison, stating that escaping it entails fleeing the country.
