Women protesters: We do not accept the obligatory hijab and dictatorship

A number of women activists have reacted to the Taliban’s imposition of hijab on women and girls, saying they do not accept forced hijab and dictatorship.

The women, known as the Women’s Movement for Justice and Freedom, protest the Taliban’s decision to make hijab mandatory for women, saying that the Taliban hijab is neither cultural nor Islamic.

They have asked the girls and women of Afghanistan not to give in to coercion and to come out in their usual clothes and not to allow anyone to force their burqa or cover on them.

On the other hand, reports indicate that the majority of women in the cities of Afghanistan have appeared in tents despite the Taliban’s order to make the burqa obligatory.

Meanwhile, the Taliban’s Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Virtue recently announced in a decree on women’s hijab that women should cover their faces in public places and that their parents would be punished if they violated them.