{"id":138206,"date":"2021-09-09T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=138206"},"modified":"2021-09-09T06:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:27:04","slug":"taliban-beats-protesters-and-arrests-journalists-at-womens-rally-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/taliban-beats-protesters-and-arrests-journalists-at-womens-rally-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban beats protesters and arrests journalists at women\u2019s rally in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kabul, Afghanistan:<\/strong> After being shut out from the Taliban\u2019s new government, women increased pressure on Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers with a number of protests, at least one of which was broken up by Taliban fighters who whipped some demonstrators and arrested local journalists.<\/p>\n

The protests came on Wednesday, a day after the Taliban announced an interim cabinet composed exclusively of the group\u2019s stalwarts, with no women or former political figures and few minorities. Although the rallies were small, with only a few dozen women in each case, they put the new government to the test after it declared that participating in \u2014 and covering \u2014 protests was illegal without government permission, including for slogans and banners.<\/p>\n

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Taliban fighters try to stop the advance of protesters marching through the Dashti-E-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul on Wednesday, a day after the Taliban announced their new all-male interim government.<\/span>Credit:<\/span>LA Times<\/cite><\/p>\n

The rallies illustrated the reality that, though the Taliban may now stand virtually unchallenged on the battlefield, the group faces a more complicated task in getting fearful Afghans \u2014 especially women and those living in cities \u2014 to buckle under its rule. It is evident that the militant group is growing less tolerant and more violent in confronting criticism amid calls for wider civil rights.<\/p>\n

A video posted on social media showed a Taliban fighter whipping one of the demonstrators as several women screamed and hurried away. The Los Angeles Times<\/em> verified the location where the video was taken. Two Afghan journalists were taken to a police station and beaten with pipes and rifle butts.<\/p>\n

Protesters assembled near a bank on the main thoroughfare bisecting Dasht-e-Barchi, a south-western Kabul neighbourhood dominated by the minority Hazara community. They stood in a semicircle and raised printed signs in Dari and English. One of them read, \u201cWhy is the world watching us silently and cruelly?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Journalists from the Etilaatroz newspaper, Nemat Naqdi, 28, a video journalist, left and Taqi Daryabi, 22, video editor, undress to show wounds sustained after Taliban fighters tortured and beat them while in custody, after they were arrested for reporting on a women\u2019s rights protest in Kabul.<\/span>Credit:<\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/cite><\/p>\n

Soon after, they began their march down Shaheed Mazari Road, holding up their signs and shouting, \u201cAzadi!\u201d \u2014 freedom \u2014 as a parade of minivans, motorcycles and \u201990s Toyota Corollas passed by them.<\/p>\n

Trailing at the back was Rahela Talash, who along with her colleague was lugging a portable speaker with a broken handle: \u201cNo women, no Hazara [in government]. It\u2019s completely wrong. This is why we are here,\u201d she said, adding that the Taliban\u2019s government was almost completely chosen from the dominant Pashtun ethnic group.<\/p>\n

There was also a notable omission in the new cabinet compared with the government of deposed president Ashraf Ghani: the Ministry of Women\u2019s Affairs, which had existed since late 2001, after the Taliban was driven from power by a US-led invasion, appears now to have been disbanded, a move that enraged many of those at the protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely wrong that they don\u2019t think about us. We\u2019re half of this society. They have to consider us,\u201d said Mariam Shafaii, a 19-year-old student.<\/p>\n

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Women gather to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul on Friday<\/span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

The Taliban signalled it was losing patience with demonstrations: \u201dFor the past few days, a number of people in Kabul and other provinces have taken to the streets in the name of demonstrations, disrupting security, harassing people and disrupting normal life,\u201c the Interior Ministry said in a statement. \u201cAll citizens are informed that for the time being, they are not [to try] to hold demonstrations under any name or title.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shafaii was not deterred. \u201cWe will not keep quiet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In another sobering turn, the Taliban has reinstituted a ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, which was notorious during the group\u2019s 1996-2001 rule for its brutal enforcement of the Taliban\u2019s ultraconservative brand of Islam. The ministry presided over the amputation of thieves\u2019 hands and the stoning deaths of women found guilty of adultery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Taliban were at a crossroads: choose a path that would mollify the international community … by being more open and inclusive, or they could have taken the easy path of appeasing their own rank-and-file and going back to what had worked for them in the 1990s,\u201d said Ibraheem Bahiss, an Afghanistan consultant with the International Crisis Group. \u201cThey very much chose the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n

That choice was met with opprobrium, with many nations expressing their disapproval of a government made exclusively of Taliban. \u201cThe government certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity,\u201d said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in a press conference from Germany\u2019s Ramstein Base on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re also concerned by the affiliations and track records of some of those individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roughly half of the cabinet\u2019s members are under US or UN sanctions. The acting minister of the interior, Sirajuldin Haqqani, is wanted by the FBI, which placed a $US5 million bounty on him. Blinken, however, said he would wait for \u201cactions\u201d to finally assess the government and determine its legitimacy and the future of US-Afghan relations.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, after 45 minutes of walking, the protesters in Kabul came upon a parked Humvee. Four Taliban fighters moved to push the women back. Despite the AK-47s they carried, the women swarmed towards them, shouting and arguing at the leader until he relented and allowed them to continue.<\/p>\n

But other fighters near the Karte Char police station, close to the centre of Kabul, were less tolerant. There, another group of demonstrators shouted and toted signs before bewildered Taliban members, many of them young men from rural areas, where little of the West\u2019s campaign for female equality has trickled down over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

When two Los Angeles Times<\/em> journalists approached, the fighters broke away from the protest and surrounded them, lunging for one of the journalists\u2019 cameras. They then shoved them towards the police station, where a number of local journalists had already been detained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not allowed to photograph these protests,\u201d one of the Taliban leaders said after examining a media permit. \u201cThey are illegal, and you must delete any photos taken there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another, younger Taliban fighter with kohl-lined eyes said it was forbidden to photograph women.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you doing this? This is against Islam,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, five journalists from Etilaat Roz, a local newspaper, remained inside the station; two of them had been arrested earlier, at the start of the protest. When an editor and two other Etilaat journalists came to the station to try to persuade the Taliban to release their colleague, they, too, were detained. Also taken into custody was a local producer with Euronews.<\/p>\n

The Euronews producer was repeatedly slapped in the face by three of the Taliban members there, who took his phone and wallet, a colleague said. Both were returned when he was released, and he was otherwise unhurt.<\/p>\n

The Etilaat reporters first arrested, video journalist Nemat Naqdi, 28, and 22-year-old video editor Taqi Daryabi, were spotted by the Taliban and told they didn\u2019t have permission to film. They grabbed Daryabi and dragged him into the station; Naqdi managed to move away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t let me resist,\u201d Daryabi said. He said he was shoved to the ground, tortured and beaten unconscious. He was taken to a yard and some water was poured on him. He was still there when they brought Naqdi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were shouting that we are journalists. But they didn\u2019t care,\u201d Naqdi said. \u201cI thought they were going to kill me … They kept on ridiculing us, asking if we were filming them.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the two journalists were finally told to leave, they couldn\u2019t find their shoes. Their phones were eventually given back to them, but not Naqdi\u2019s glasses. He said he could barely walk to the car. A video released later of Daryabi shows him unable to walk unaided, limping as he is supported by two of his colleagues.<\/p>\n

Pressure against the Taliban is rising on other fronts as well, notably in Panjshir, a province long locked in battle with the group. The Taliban announced its takeover of the province earlier this week. But National Resistance Front, or NRF, a grouping of anti-Taliban figures including Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Northern Alliance guerilla leader, said they were still fighting.<\/p>\n

Ghani, the deposed president who fled the country when the Taliban reached Kabul, issued a statement from his exile in the Emirates on Wednesday saying that leaving the capital was \u201cthe most difficult decision of my life.\u201d But he said he believed it was the only way to save the city and that he had no intention of abandoning the Afghan people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with deep and profound regret that my own chapter ended in similar tragedy to my predecessors \u2014 without ensuring stability and prosperity,\u201d he said. \u201cI apologise to the Afghan people that I could not make it end differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

That apology \u2014 observers drily noted that though Ghani said his speech was for the Afghan people, it was published only in English \u2014 had little effect on Daryabi, who is now confronting a more troubling power. \u201cThe Taliban haven\u2019t changed a bit,\u201d he said, adding that he was considering finding a way to leave the country.<\/p>\n

Naqdi agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely there is no safety. Journalism doesn\u2019t mean anything to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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