Afghan activists demonstrate against ban on girls’ education

During a protest they organized in the Afghan capital, Kabul, women activists reiterated demands for the rights of girls to education and stressed that education is a red line and the Taliban terrorist movement cannot prevent it.

Shia Waves News Agency followed video clips of several women and activists, who went out in protest to demand the right to education after the expulsion of female students from a university dormitory in Kabul.

The participants carried banners saying “Education is our red line” and chanted that “the world has forgotten them while they are under the rule of the criminal movement.”

However, members of the movement dispersed the peaceful demonstration, and warned the participants of attacking them if they continued to do so.

In the video, a female protester was heard saying: “Again, the Taliban are preventing us from demonstrating by insulting and threatening us,” adding, “Unfortunately, the Taliban are threatening us with attack and suicide bombing.”

 More than 50 Shia Hazara students, most of them girls, were killed last month in an attack in Kabul that sparked protests from Afghans around the world.

The terrorist movement insists on preventing female students in secondary schools from education, according to its extremist interpretation of Islamic law.