Taliban ordered Afghan women to wear niqab when visiting private universities and colleges

The Taliban terrorist movement imposes severe restrictions on Afghan women attending private universities and colleges, informs AFP.

According to a set of rules drawn up by the Taliban’s higher education agency, women will only be able to attend universities in the niqab, a Muslim headdress with a slit for the eyes. At the same time, classes for Afghan women should be held in a separate room. In the event that this is not possible, a curtain should hang between the female and male parts of the audience.

In addition, the Taliban insist on separate entrances for women, as well as measures to prevent female students from crossing over with men between classes. They will only have to learn from female teachers, but the Taliban allow older men “with good reputation” to conduct classes for women.

Previously became knownthat the Taliban used tear gas to disperse a crowd of women protesting in Kabul against disqualification from participation in the government. The women protesters tried to approach the presidential palace, but they were stopped with tear gas. At the protest, the Taliban also fired into the air and beat at least one woman, Nargis Sadat. According to the Kabul newspaper Ethylthrosis, activists were beaten with truncheons.

In early August, the Taliban stepped up their offensive against government forces in Afghanistan, and on August 15, the group’s militants took control of the presidential palace in the capital, effectively seizing power in the country.

How noted The Insider, banned in Russia The Taliban is an anti-democratic movement that has never participated or planned to participate in elections, rejecting the very idea of ​​nationwide voting and the competition of different ideologies and candidates. Accordingly, its leaders were not elected to their positions, but received them as a result of complex processes, often hidden from the eyes of the uninitiated. But some of the rules and patterns of the political career of the Taliban elite are still it is possible to trace.