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A poster ordering women to wear the hijab at a private university in Afghanistan. The Taliban then barred women from universities in 2022.
Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty

Afghan girls detained and lashed by Taliban for violating hijab rules

Girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’

A teacher at a school in Kabul. Only female healthcare workers and teachers can still go to work. Women working in other fields are forced to stay home now.
Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty

Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials

As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them

I would be flogged or stoned to death by the Taliban,’ recalls Mahtab Eftekhar of when her mother-in-law accused her of adultery when she tried to flee with her children. Eftekhar fled into exile in Iran.
Photograph: Handout

Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears death

Nargis Orokzai as a child, pictured with her mother.
Composite: Guardian Design/AFP/Getty Images

‘It’s a nightmare’: the mother and daughter ripped apart by the Taliban

Nargis Orakzai now lives in freedom in Germany. But the pain of leaving behind her mother, and the career she loved, is with her every day


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