Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have arrested five women participating in the protest in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, against the ban on women attending universities.
Later, the Taliban administration and Neda Mohammad Nadeem, minister of higher education, said that women were banned from university for not following the dress code, according to the BBC.
The higher education minister implemented the new restriction on Tuesday, with private and public universities ordered to bar women from attending. According to the BBC, three journalists were also arrested.
University Administration
Universities security guards stopped hundreds of women from entering universities on Wednesday, a day after the ban was announced. It has the latest policy restricting women’s education since the Taliban returned to power the previous year.
Afghan Girls were already excluded from most secondary schools in Afghanistan.
Several Afghan women were involved in the protest and were beaten or arrested by female Taliban officers.
One of the protesters said she was “beaten badly” but managed to evade being taken into custody.
There were many Taliban female members among us; the woman said that under the condition of anonymity.
She said that they beat some of our friends’ girls and arrested some others. They were about to take me too, but I managed to escape. But I was beaten badly.
Another protester said two people were released after arrest, but several protesters remained in Taliban custody.
Some men have responded with acts of solidarity with the protesters. About 50 male university professors at public and private institutions have resigned from their positions, while some male students have reportedly refused to sit their exams.
