According to a Kabul official on Thursday (local time), the Taliban are forbidding women from using gyms in Afghanistan. This is the religious group’s most recent edict restricting women’s rights and freedom since the Too Power Power movement more than a year ago.
Last year, the Taliban took control of the nation, assuming control in August 2021. They have banned girls from Middle School and High School, Lie Clothing in public.
The Ministry of Virtue and Vice’s spokesman claimed that the ban was being implemented because people were disobeying orders requiring gender segregation and because women were not donning the required headscarf, or hijab. Parks Are Not Allowed for Women.
According to Taliban-appointed Ministry of Virtue and Vice Spokesman Mohammed Akef Mohajer, the ban on women using parks and gyms went into effect this week.
He stated that the group has “TRIED ITS BEST” over the last 15 mouths to prevent closing parks and gyms to women, ordering different days of the week for male and female access, or imposing gender segregation.
We had to close parks and gyms for women because the orders were not followed and the rules were broken, said Mohajer. “In Most Cases, We Have Seen Both Men and Women Together in Parks and, Un Fortunately, The Hijab Was Not Observed.
Therefore, we had to come up with another choice, and for the time being we ordered that all parks and gyms be off-limits to women.
He said that Taliban teams would start watching businesses to see if women were still using them.
Women and men had not previously exercised or trained together at the Kabul gym where she works, according to a FEMALE PERSONAL Trainer who spoke to the Associated Press.
She insisted, speaking under the condition of anonymity out of concern for retaliation, “The Taliban are Lying.” “We were Training Separately.
She claimed that on Thursday, two men who entered her gym and forced all the women to leave were from the Ministry of Virtue and Vice.
The Taliban arrived and detained the women who wanted to protest the gyms, she continued. “We are not sure if they are alive or dead right now.”
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Alison Davidian, the UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan, condemned the ban. This is Another Instance of the Taliban’s Systematic Erasure of Women from Public Life, She Said. “We demand that the Taliban restore all freedoms and rights for women and girls.”
The Taliban-led administration, which struggles to rule and is still isolated internationally, appears to be dominated by hard-liners.
As foreign aid has dwindled to a trickle, an economic downturn has forced millions more Afghans into poverty and hunger.
The bans on gyms, parks, work, and schools, according to Kabul-based women’s rights activist Sodaba Nazhand, would leave many women wondering what was left for them in Afghanistan.
It is a restriction that affects both women and children, she added. “Children Go to a Park with their mothers, Now Children Are Also Prevented from Going to the Park.
It’s so depressing and unfair.
Taliban official bans women from using the gyms in Afghanistan
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