The Taliban authorities broke up a demonstration involving around 100 women – mostly Hazara ethnic groups – by firing shots in the air in the western city Heratin Afghanistan. The demonstrators said they had been beaten. “Education is our right, genocide is a crime,” shouted the hijab-clad and black-clothed demonstrators, while the students were held up by heavily armed Taliban troops. They protested the attack on Friday in Kabulin which 35 people were killed and 82 others injured, mostly girls and young women.
“We had no weapons, we just chanted slogans as we marched,” said one of the protesters, Wahida Saghri. “But they hit us with sticks and also shot us in the air to scatter us. Please take our vote around the world because we are not safe here.
Another group of female students who were prevented from protesting on the streets held a separate demonstration on the university campus, according to footage made available to France Presse. “We couldn’t get out because the Taliban security forces closed the main gate of the university,” said one student. Zulaikha Ahmadi. “We then chanted slogans and asked for the gate to be opened, but they scattered us by shooting in the air.” In the video, protesters can be heard shouting “open the door, open the door” before a Taliban member hits them with a stick. The group then disperses while gunfire is heard in the background.
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