Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from Kabul parks

The Taliban person banned women from visiting each parks successful Kabul, excluding them inactive further from nationalist beingness successful Afghanistan.

A spokesperson for the Vice and Virtue Ministry told the BBC those managing parks successful the superior had been told not to let women in.

The radical claims Islamic laws were not being followed astatine parks.

Women's rights and freedoms person been severely restricted since the militant Islamists seized powerfulness successful August 2021.

Under Taliban rules connected segregating radical by gender, women person been allowed to sojourn parks connected 3 days each week - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - and men connected the remaining four.

Now women won't beryllium allowed adjacent if accompanied by antheral relatives.

"We've done this due to the fact that successful the past 15 months, contempt our efforts, radical person been going to the parkland and not respecting Sharia laws," Mohammed Akif, spokesperson for the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, told the BBC.

"The regularisation is for each women, whether they are with oregon without a mahram [male escort]."

The prohibition connected women extends to amusement parks that usually person rides similar bumper cars oregon a ferris wheel, and wherever families sojourn unneurotic with their children.

It appears to use lone to the superior for now, but successful the past specified rules person yet applied crossed the country.

One pistillate who Reuters quality bureau caught up with astatine the entranceway to a Kabul parkland was disappointed aft being turned away.

"When a parent comes with their children, they indispensable beryllium allowed to participate the park, due to the fact that these children haven't seen thing good... they indispensable play and beryllium entertained," said Masooma, who gave lone her archetypal sanction for information reasons.

Under the Taliban women successful Afghanistan person been subjected to a bid of curbs connected their freedoms.

Women are barred from going connected longer region journeys without a antheral chaperone. Teenage girls person inactive not returned to school successful astir of the country, contempt Taliban promises to let them to bash so.

While immoderate women inactive enactment successful sectors specified arsenic healthcare and education, astir were told not to spell to enactment aft the Taliban swept backmost to power. In May a decree was passed ordering women to deterioration the Islamic look veil successful public, though immoderate successful municipality areas tin inactive beryllium seen failing to comply.

The Taliban person vowed determination volition beryllium nary brutal repression of women arsenic determination was erstwhile they were archetypal successful powerfulness successful the 1990s.

They accidental they present respect women's rights successful enactment with Sharia law, and are not against women being educated oregon having jobs.

But Western diplomats person indicated to the Taliban that resuming improvement backing for a state successful heavy economical situation depends connected the attraction of women improving.