Since returning to power in Afghanistan sixteen months ago, the Taliban have slowly returned to their hardline stance on women's rights.
They claim their rules are in line with their interpretation of Islam, despite Afghanistan being the only Muslim country to ban girls' education.
Another step was taken this week.
In video, a Taliban official announces that women are only to “practice sports where they are exposed”
Already banned from secondary education, Afghan girls and women no longer have the right to go to university either, according to a decision by the Taliban fundamentalists, who returned to power in August 2021. “You are all informed of the entry into force of the mentioned order which suspends the education of women until further notice”
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wrote the Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, in a letter addressed to the public and private universities of the country. and published Tuesday, December 20.
Yet another ban that provokes both the anger and the desolation of Afghan women, who are gradually being excluded from public life.
The opportunity to return to the chronology of their repression which rages in Afghanistan against women.
August 2021: the return of the Taliban
The Taliban regain power in Kabul on August 15 in the chaotic final withdrawal of US-led foreign troops, ending a 20-year war and precipitating the collapse of President Ashraf Ghani's government backed by the 'West.
The hard-line Islamist group wants to be reassuring.
He promises a more flexible regime than when he first came to power, from 1996 to 2001, and says he will respect human rights obligations, including those of women.
September 2021: gendered classes
The Taliban announced on September 12 that women could attend universities whose entrances and classrooms were separated by sex, but that they could only receive lessons from professors of the same sex or from elderly men.
Other restrictions include wearing the hijab as part of a mandatory dress code.
March 2022: girls prevented from going to school
On March 23, secondary schools for girls were supposed to reopen, but the Taliban rescinded the directive, in an unexpected about-face.
Tens of thousands of adolescent girls are then excluded and forced to stay at home.
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May 2022: stay home
On May 7, Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered women to cover themselves fully, including their faces, in public and to stay mostly at home.
It is also forbidden for women to travel in cities without being accompanied by a man.
August 2022: the demonstrations are dispersed
On August 13, Taliban fighters beat female protesters who were chanting "bread, work and freedom" and fired into the air to disperse a protest outside the Ministry of Education in Kabul.
Extremist Islamists also arrested and beat journalists covering the protests.
November 2022: prohibited parks
Women are prohibited from entering parks, fairgrounds, sports halls and public baths.
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December 2022: execution, flogging
The Taliban are carrying out their first public execution since their return to power, that of a convicted murderer, shot on December 7 by the father of his victim in the western province of Farah.
The following day, more than 1,000 people witnessed the flogging of 27 Afghans, including women, in Charikar, in the central province of Parwan, for a series of offenses ranging from sodomy and adultery to forgery and debauchery.
Public floggings have since been regularly practiced in other provinces.
December 2022: no university for women
Armed guards prevent hundreds of young women from entering university campuses on December 21, the day after a terse statement from the Minister of Higher Education announcing an order 'suspending women's education until further notice' .