Taliban ban Afghan women from flying alone

The Taliban ordered the airlines in Afghanistan that they prevent women from taking flights unless they are accompanied by a male relative, a new restriction on the freedoms of Afghan women that have been heavily burdened in the seven months that the Islamist group has been in power.

Since his return to power on August 15, the taliban have imposed numerous restrictions on women’s freedomsoften applied locally according to the regional authorities of the ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

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The radical Islamist movement has promised to exercise a more tolerant version of the rigid code of behavior that its government imposed when it was in power from 1996 to 2001.

But since August they have weighed down two decades of progress on the rights of Afghan women, leaving them out of most public positions and barring them from secondary education.

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Furthermore, they are required to dress according to a strict interpretation of the Koran.

These new anti-displacement measures come after last week, taliban high schools for girls closed hours after they were allowed to reopen for the first time since he came to power.

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Two airline officials Ariana Afghan and Kam Air They said Sunday night that the Taliban ordered them not to allow women to travel alone, without an accompanying male family member.

A letter sent by a senior official from Ariana Afghan to airline staff following the meeting with the talibanwhich was accessed by AFP, confirms that the new instructions apply to all flights.

“No woman can travel on a local or international flight without a family member who is a man,” indicates the letter.

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The decision was adopted after a meeting on Thursday between representatives of the talibanthe two airlines and immigration authorities at the airport, the two officials, who asked not to be identified, told AFP.

That ministry said it had not issued any guidelines to ban women from traveling alone on planes.

Two travel agents contacted by AFP also confirmed that they have stopped issuing tickets to women flying alone.

“Some women traveling without a male family member were unable to board a Kam Air flight on Friday from Kabul to Islamabad”A passenger on the plane told AFP.

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The The Taliban had already prohibited women from traveling alone by road between cities if the journey exceeded 72 kilometers.but until now they could take flights.

It is not yet clear if this directive also applies to foreign women, but local media reported that an Afghan woman with a US passport was prevented from boarding a plane last week.

This week the defense associations of the women’s rights in Afghanistan they plan to demonstrate, if the schools do not open.

The crackdown on Afghan women and girls “is not a substitute for governance,” Rina Amiri, the US special envoy to Afghanistan, said on Twitter.

“Create a culture of hope and not one of fear”, he stated in reference to the Taliban.

radical islamists they also appear to have launched a crackdown on local media, which thrived under previous US-backed regimes.

This Monday, in the province of Kandahar (south), Taliban intelligence services carried out operations on four radio stations that broadcast music, and arrested six journalists.

On Sunday, Islamists ordered the BBC’s Afghan television partners to stop broadcasting their programmes.

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Source: Elcomercio

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