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The Taliban is a regime of gender apartheid!
Zan Times' statement on the hunger strike of women activists in Germany, translated from Persian to English by Rustam Seerat.
Several female activists in Cologne, Germany, have embarked on a 12-day hunger strike to advocate for the official recognition of the Taliban’s “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan. They insist that the voices of protesting women be amplified by both Afghanistan’s society and the international community and that financial support to the Taliban be severed as it is sustaining the group’s misogynistic regime.
The Taliban have transformed Afghanistan into a prison, unparalleled in its cruelty and systematic gender-based and ethnic discrimination in human, legal, and social realms. Besides establishing a mono-ethnic administration, the regime has issued more than 50 decrees against women, effectively excluding women from public and social spaces. These decrees limit their freedom of movement, attire, behaviour, education, employment, access to healthcare, and also obstruct their pursuit of justice.
Since the inception of the women’s protest movement after the Taliban regained power in 2021, women have been at the forefront of protests against the Taliban, fighting on behalf of all political and social factions in…
