KABUL: A small group of Afghan secondary school students held a protest Monday in the western city of Herat to denounce the Taliban movement to prevent the girls who attend school.
Thirteen students, aged 15 to 18, gathered in a residential area on the outskirts of Herat _ an environment where the Taliban did not have the presence _ so as not to attract their attention.
Some local journalists were invited by girls covering the rally.
The protesters hold banners demanded to be able to return to school, saying that restrictions on girls from education will leave the entire nation of uneducated future.
“ We asked them (Taliban) to reopen our school as soon as possible, “said one protester, Nargis Jamshid, 17.
He added that not going to school felt as if” we move backwards.
“We are requesting that all girls must return to their school and all women must be allowed to return to their work,” Sharaara Sarwari, 18.
After in power in Afghanistan last month, the Taliban initially said women would be given the same access to education, Although in separate gender settings, and includes inclusiveness but since then imposed several restrictions on women.
On Sundays, female employees in Kabul City government were told to stay at home, with work only permitted for those who could not be replaced by men.
On Friday, the Ministry of Taliban education ordered boys from sixth grade to 12 return to school, starting on Saturday, along with a male teacher _ but did not mention the girls in school-grades returning to school.
In their previous government in the 1990s, the Taliban prohibited women and women from school, work and public life.
Afghan high school girls against the Taliban
