A number of female hairstylists demonstrated in Kabul today (Wednesday, July 19) protesting against the Taliban’s recent order to shut the beauty salons.
Those who protested on the streets of Kabul with the slogan “bread, work, freedom” asked the Taliban to lift the ban on beauty salons and allow women to work.
Not long ago, the Taliban issued a statement to Kabul Municipality and other provinces to ban the operation of women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan.
Today, the Taliban prevented their gathering and protest by shooting on the air, splashing water on the women, and beating them. According to these aggressors, 3 of them have been injured due to the violence of the Taliban and many have been arrested.
On July 2 of this year, the Taliban announced that the licenses of active beauty salons will not be renewed from now on.
A source from within the protesting women told COV News that the union of tradesmen prevented the demonstration by aligning with the Taliban. While the duty of this union is to defend the rights of businesspeople. But for the protesting women, they said that this is the order of Amirul Momineen, the Supreme Leader, and you should follow it.
The source adds that the Taliban arrested a large number of protesting women and are chasing them from street to street.
This is despite the fact that the Taliban had previously prohibited Afghan women from working in non-governmental organizations, traveling, having fun, and even going to the bath-houses, and they have also prohibited girls above the sixth grade from going to school and university.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International requested in a new report that the Taliban’s treatment of women should be investigated as “sexual harassment and an example of a crime against humanity.”
Frishta Askari
