Since their arrival in August, they have imposed various restrictions on women and girls, despite initial promises according to which their plan would be less strict than during their first reigns (1996-2001).
Le Monde with AFP
This is a new sign of the tightening of the Taliban regime despite their initial promises. The Ministry of Virtual Promotion and Vice Prevention has published a recommendation, Sunday, December 26, claiming that women wishing to travel on long distances had to be accompanied by a man of their near family. It also calls drivers to accept women aboard their vehicle only if they wear the “Islamic sail”.
“Women traveling more than 45 miles [72 kilometers] can not make the trip if they are not accompanied by a close family member,” said France-Press (AFP) the door -Parole of the Ministry, Sadeq Akif Muhajir, stating that the accompanying officer had to be a man. This directive comes a few weeks after the Ministry’s request to Afghan televisions to no longer broadcast “soappery and rose water series in which women play, and to make women journalists wear” the Islamic veil ” on the screen. The Taliban do not specify what they mean by “Islamic sail”, if it is a simple scarf, already worn by the majority of Afghan women, or a more covering veil.
Multiplication of restrictions
Since their arrival in August, they have imposed various restrictions on women and girls, despite initial promises that their plan would be less strict than during their first reigns (1996-2001). In several provinces, local authorities have agreed to reopen schools to girls, even though many of them across the country still can not go. During their first reign, the Taliban had mandatory to women the port of La Burqa. They could not leave their homes only accompanied by a man and did not have the right to work and study.
earlier in December, a decree on behalf of the Supreme Movement Leader asked the Government to enforce the rights of women, but this decree did not avoid the right to education. Activists hope that Taliban efforts to be recognized by the international community and again receive indispensable aid in the country – which is among the poorest in the world – will bring them to make concessions.
Saturday, the Taliban dissolved the independent electoral commission (IEC) of Afghanistan, created under the previous plan and responsible for organizing the elections. In addition to the IEC, they also ordered this week the dissolution of the Commission for electoral complaints (ECC) and two ministries, the one for peace and the one for parliamentary affairs.
“For the moment, we do not need that these two departments and committees exist and work. If the need made it feel, the Islamic emirate [the name given by the Taliban to their diet] Could restore them, “said AFP Bilal Karim, a deputy spokesman of the Taliban.