Barbed Wire Fences, Armed Guards Keep Women out of Afghanistan Universities

Universities in Kabul have been fenced off with barbed wires along with the deployment of armed guards by the Taliban government in Afghanistan to keep women out of the campus of these educational institutions.

At present all classes for women have stopped and only a few female students are being allowed to enter the university campus for paperwork and administrative reasons. As per reports, female students can be seen crying outside the varsity campus in Kabul. Taliban has put a ban on the higher education of women in Afghanistan.

“The Taliban have used barbed wire and armed guards to prevent Afghan women from entering universities. Yet, despite the intimidation, they protest alongside brave Afghan men, demanding women and girls be given their basic rights,” tweeted BBC correspondent Yalda Hakim.

In some places, women are protesting with placards and sloganeering against the ban on their university education. Several male students have boycotted classes and professors have resigned to protest against this Taliban diktat.

Shabnam Nasimi, the former policy advisor to the minister for afghan resettlement and minister for refugees, tweeted an image of a burqa-clad woman standing outside a barbed wire gate. On December 20, the Taliban banned all female students from universities in Afghanistan.