Afghan protesters injured during demonstration against Taliban-imposed dress code for women
Witnesses said armed police fired on the crowd as more than 100 people protested arrests over Taliban dress rules for women.
- On Tuesday, Taliban morality police dispersed a women's rights protest in Herat, Afghanistan, after detaining women for alleged dress code violations; gunfire left at least three people injured.
- The demonstration followed the detention of at least 16 women since Friday for failing to comply with strict dress rules enforced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
- Sayed Masoud Hosseini, spokesperson for Herat police, claimed the Jebrail area gathering "created tensions," while the vice and virtue ministry dismissed detention reports as rumors, asserting wearing a hijab is a "divine command."
- Richard Bennett, the United Nations investigator on human rights in Afghanistan, said he was "alarmed by excessive use of force against seemingly peaceful protesters," calling for accountability.
- Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban has imposed sweeping restrictions on women, including limits on education and employment; dissent is not tolerated, and protests are illegal in Afghanistan.
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Herat, Afghanistan. Afghan men demonstrated this Tuesday in Herat, in western Afghanistan, against new restrictions imposed on women, in a police-dispersed protest, which denied AFP to have used weapons with real bullets.Ten of men gathered three days after the Taliban government's morals police detained women who did not wear the charor or burka that covers the body.In Afghanistan women must cover themselves head-to-head when they leave the hou…
The security forces of the de facto Taliban government repressed by shooting and with clubs and electric batons this Tuesday a citizen protest in Herat, in western Afghanistan, called after the arrest in the last few days of dozens of women accused of violating the regime's dress code, denounced marchers and local media. As eyewitnesses confirmed to EFE, Taliban forces opened fire and repressed the protest with clubs and electric batons, with no…
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INTELLINEWSAfghanistan: Taliban open fire during hijab protest
Several people were injured in the city of Herat after Taliban security personnel reportedly opened fire to disperse a small protest organized in support of Afghan women arrested for dress code violations.
Taliban Security Forces Fire On Afghan Women's Rights Protesters
Afghan Talliban forces used gunfire to disperse a women’s rights protest in the western city of Herat on June 9 after residents demonstrated against the recent arrest of women accused of violating the mandatory dress code. One eyewitness said at least one person was killed.
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