Taliban terrorists, who now govern Afghanistan, arrested girls as young as 16 were arrested and lashed last week in Kabul for violating the terror group’s hijab rules.
The girls were hauled into trucks by Taliban from shopping centres, classes and markets and were accused of wearing makeup and encouraging others to wear a ‘bad hijab’.
Taliban decreed in May 2022 that women should cover themselves from head to toe and reveal only their eyes. The Taliban have restricted women’s access to education and unemployment since taking over power in Afghanistan in 2021.
One girl told the UK-based newspaper The Guardian that she and a number of other girls at her English language class and pulled into a police truck. She said that when she and others refused to go they were beaten. The girl speaking to the newspaper said she was lashed on her feet and legs when trying to reason with them.
Her father was later badly beaten for “raising immoral girls”.
“My attire was modest and even included a face mask – a precaution I had adopted since the Taliban takeover. But they beat me anyway, insisting that my outfit was improper,” the girl was quoted as saying by The Guardian. She said she was detained for two days.
During her detention, she was cursed by the Taliban terrorists as infidels, for studying English and for aspiring to go abroad.
The girl was released after community elders intervened. She was made to sign a document where she promised not to leave her home without the mandatory head-covering. She has also been banned from attending her English classes.
“I can no longer imagine anything for my future other than staying home and getting married. I saw how badly my father was beaten because I went to the English course. When I saw his photos after returning home, I was so scared that I would lose him. I don’t have the motivation to study after this. I don’t want this experience again,” she told the The Guardian.
The Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, when questioned by The Guardian said the families of the detained girls raised concerns with the ministry for propagation of virtue and prevention of vice that their daughters were being used by foreign groups to promote “bad hijab”.
“(These arrests are) not usual practice. They were taken to police stations and freed on bail,” Mujahid was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
The detentions come less than a week after the UN security council requested a special envoy to engage with the Taliban, particularly over gender and women’s rights situation in Afghanistan. The Taliban declined the proposal, claiming it would complicate the situation as it will impose external solutions.
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