Quite a few people want to flee Kabul and for a good reason: The Taliban have a brutal reputation.
Their rules violate human rights.
Kabul - The situation in Afghanistan is tense after the Taliban came to power.
Quite a few people try to fly.
On Monday, dramatic scenes took place at the airport: people clung to the planes for fear of death.
The Taliban's cruel methods of punishment are feared - women and girls in particular will have to fear for their rights.
Flogging, executions, human rights violations: cruel rules of the Taliban
When they captured Kabul, they benefited from the brutal reputation they had gained during their rule in the 1990s with public executions, mutilations and flogging. At that time, the Taliban implemented their ideas of an Islamic state with sometimes barbaric punishments: women and girls were systematically oppressed and forcibly married, and artists and the media were censored. Human rights violations? They were the order of the day.
A return to such gloomy conditions in Afghanistan is feared - even if Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen assured the British broadcaster BBC otherwise.
Shortly before the takeover of power he said: "We assure the people, especially in the city of Kabul, that their possessions and their lives are safe".
There will be no revenge on anyone.
However, when the BBC presenter asked directly whether punishments such as stoning or mutilation would be carried out, he did not give a specific answer.
“I can't say that right now.
That depends on the courts. "
Taliban spokesman: women should be allowed to attend universities - but pictures will be removed
In an interview with the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
, the German women's rights activist Monika Hauer said that women's rights activists were particularly at risk.
A Taliban spokesman announced on Tuesday that girls and women would still be able to attend schools and universities even after the Islamists came to power.
"Yes, they can take up education and higher education, that also means universities," Shaheen told the British broadcaster
Sky News
on Tuesday
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After the Taliban invaded Kabul, workers remove pictures of women in the city.
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When asked whether women in Afghanistan would be expected to wear veils and wear the burqa in the future, the spokesman said in the negative.
On the other hand, a hijab, i.e. a headscarf, would be expected.
"This is for your own safety," added the Taliban representative.
The doubts about the words are great and justified.
Last but not least, a report by the British newspaper
The Independent
caused a sensation.
As a result, Taliban fighters marched into a bank in the city of Kandahar and ordered nine women to leave the bank.
The armed men are said to have accompanied her home and asked her not to return to work.
In their place, men are said to have taken over the jobs.
Apparently, the Taliban are already taking away women’s rights.
After the takeover of power in Afghanistan: The Taliban's cruel acts have probably already begun
Meanwhile, videos of the Taliban's actions are already circulating on social media.
A video from Friday is said to show a scene in the city of Herat.
This was taken by the radical Islamic Taliban on Thursday.
Among other things, the Afghan journalist Bilal Sarway had shared the pictures.
The scenes are said to have occurred after Friday prayers.
Two men accused of theft are said to be on it.
Black smeared faces, ropes around their necks - this is how alleged Taliban fighters are said to have led them through the third largest city in Afghanistan.
And the killing is said to have already started. According to reports from the British newspaper
The Sun
, the Taliban are said to be going from door to door with death lists. They are looking for people who have stood in the way of the Taliban in the past.
(mbr / dpa)