Women Who Opposed Taleban Want Justice
Women Who Opposed Taleban Want Justice
When the Taleban captured Herat in western Afghanistan in the summer of 1996, they banned music and TV and closed schools and universities to women.
Soon, women were not even allowed to walk in the streets unless they were accompanied by close family member.
In this radio report, Ali Asghar Yaqubi looks back at what happened when a group of young women who had been university students decided to stand up for their rights.
They organised a rally and called on all women in the city to demonstrate against the Taleban’s policies and demand their right to education. They were brutally suppressed.
Ali Asghar Yaqubi is an IWPR-trained radio reporter in Afghanistan.
This radio report, in Dari, was produced under IWPR’s Afghan Witness Project, designed to promote transitional justice.
