Taliban Terror: Afghan Women Banned From Seeing Male Doctors, Athletes Barred From Playing
Reports say that the provincial government will separate male and female hospital workers and stop male doctors from entering female patients' rooms.
After taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban first gender-segregated university classrooms "following Islamic principles." In September 2021, they only allowed boys to return to school, excluding most adolescent females from secondary school and preventing Afghan women from working in most sectors except health and education.
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Women cannot travel more than 45 miles (70 km) without a male relative and must cover their faces in public.
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Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's reclusive commander, rejected negotiations or compromise on his "Islamic system" in July 2022.
Here are all the bans women in Afghanistan have to endure, threatening their overall well-being and existence in the country.
Afghan Athletes Are Not Allowed to Compete:
Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats. pic.twitter.com/vLedJ0ZMX6
¡ª Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) January 11, 2023
The Taliban visited and called several girls and women who played sports, urging them not to play. The women and girls spoke anonymously to avoid additional threats. They posed for AP photographs with their favorite sports gear.
Ebrahim Noroozi /AP
Burqas, which cover the face except for a mesh, conceal their identities. They now wear the burqa while going outside to avoid harassment.
Women are banned from seeing male doctors:
#CATCH22 fast leading to a human catastrophy -#Afghanistan, under sharia law, bans women from visiting male doctors.
¡ª Vin S ?????? (@vinith_24) January 11, 2023
They have also banned women from schools denying them right to education?There will be no female doctors
A slow agonising death for 50% of afghan citizens pic.twitter.com/vbS7d2ZXZL
Reports say a Taliban-controlled Afghan province banned women from visiting male doctors.
The Taliban have reportedly ordered male doctors NOT to treat female patients.
¡ª William Chris (@WChris_Afghan) January 11, 2023
So, if women are BANNED from university & can¡¯t study to become doctors, and now can¡¯t be treated by male doctors, then what are they supposed to do? Die from sickness? pic.twitter.com/wgGUt0tA15
According to the Afghan daily Hasht-e-Subh, quoted by the Pakistani news site The Current, the statement came from the Directorate of Public Affairs and Hearing of Taliban Complaints in Balkh province.
Reports say that the provincial government will separate male and female hospital workers and stop male doctors from entering female patients' rooms.
On Sunday, journalist Ashwini Shrivastava tweeted that the Taliban in Balkh province, Afghanistan, banned women from seeing male physicians. "No women's education means no female physicians either."
The Taliban forbids Afghan women from working in malls and plans to close beauty salons in 10 days.
Taliban have reportedly ordered all female beauty salons in a number of provinces across Afghanistan to CLOSE their business. They have also sent letters to landlords & told them not to rent to women.
¡ª Shabnam Nasimi (@NasimiShabnam) January 10, 2023
Yet the shameful silence on the Taliban¡¯s war on women continues. pic.twitter.com/RgyNcYYwtf
Afghanistan's Taliban will close women's beauty salons in 10 days. According to APA, Al-Arabiya, Afghan authorities have banned women from working in malls.
The Vice and Virtue Agents of the Taliban in Baghlan urged landowners and dealers to stop renting space to women's hair salons and shut them down, the Minute Mirror reports.
The Taliban in Baghlan declared women's hair salons seditious and against Sharia.
Taliban shut down women's beauty salons today. Previously they had painted over women's photos on clothing store and beauty salon displays. Every day is a day of getting further erased for women of Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/rIn2ZRVg4u
¡ª Zubaida Akbar (@ZubaidaAKBR) January 11, 2023
Further information suggests that the shopkeepers and vendors of Baghlan pushed the Taliban for a 10-day limit. Before, the Taliban shut down all hair salons for women in Kunduz, Takhar, and Badakhshan.
Taliban had earlier told all non-government organizations in Afghanistan, domestic and international, that they couldn't hire women.
Taliban also Banned Female NGO Workers:
On December 24, the Taliban ordered international and local non-governmental organizations to suspend female personnel for violating the dress code. In response, many groups, including Save the Children and CARE, ceased operations.
Aid organizations and funders are now deciding whether to continue assisting with the new restrictions.
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