Taliban ban women from parks and funfairs in Afghan capital
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP):
The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital’s public parks and funfairs, just months after ordering access to be segregated by gender.
The new rule, introduced this week, further squeezes women out of an ever-shrinking public space that already sees them banned from traveling without a male escort.
Schools for teenage girls have also been shut for over a year across most of the country.
“For the past 15 months, we tried our best to arrange and sort it out — and even specified the days,” said Mohammad Akif Sadeq Mohajir, spokesman for the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue.
“But still, in some places — in fact, we must say in many places — the rules were violated,” he told AFP late Wednesday.
“There was mixing (of men and women), hijab was not observed, that’s why the decision has been taken for now.”
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