The Taliban prohibits women from entering parks and gyms in Afghanistan

The Taliban banned women from using gyms in Afghanistanan official said Thursday. It is the religious group’s latest edict limiting women’s rights and freedoms since it came to power more than a year ago.

After a lightning campaign, the Taliban He took power in August 2021. Since then, they have prohibited girls from pursuing secondary and higher education. and, despite initial promises to the country, have restricted women’s access to most jobs and force them to be covered from head to toe in public.

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The new measure was taken because people ignored the orders of segregation by sex and because women did not wear hijabs.or veil, as required, explained Mohammed Akef Mohajer, spokesman for the Ministry of Virtue and Vice.

Based on the regulations that came into force this week, women cannot access the parks either.

According to Akef Mohajer, in the last 15 months the group has “done everything possible” to prevent the closure of parks and gyms to women, mandating their use on separate days of the week or imposing segregation by sex. “But unfortunately, the orders have not been followed and the rules have been violated” which led to the restrictions, the spokesman said.

“In most cases, we have seen men and women together in the parks and unfortunately the hijab was not respected. So we had to make another decision.” He added noting that Taliban groups will check the establishments to see if women continue to use them.

The conservatives they seem to control the government taliban, which has difficulties governing and remains isolated on the international stage. The economic crisis has plunged millions more Afghans into poverty and hunger while foreign aid has been reduced to a minimum.

Source: Elcomercio

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