Un plane which takes off in a disaster, civilians who hang on to its sides or its landing gear, trying in desperate momentum to flee the repression to come: we still all have in mind these images of Kabul airport, this August 15, 2021, when the Taliban power.
In four years, the new diet has completely invisited Afghan women and girls. He also stifled everything that was, directly or indirectly, to the memory of a rule of law, starting with the judicial system.
This has been completely dismantled and replaced by a system based on a rigorous interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Crusted with inconsistencies, it is characterized by impunity for the Taliban and their allies, and arbitrary, inexpensive and closed trials for others. It is also defined by a discretionary power in the application of sanctions, such as flogging and public executions.
Arbitrary arrests, torture
This narrowing of freedoms and the multiplication of body punishment has particularly targeted Afghan women. While they actively occupied the functions of judges, procureures and lawyers before the Taliban’s return, most of them have since been forced to hide or go into exile after being removed from their functions.
Within society, women have become invisible. Prohibited from access to the parks or to walk in the street without the presence of a male tutor (mahram), they are forced to submit or undergo a terrible repression. Those who revolt are victims of arbitrary arrests, torture and ill -treatment, forced disappearances or even forced marriages with Taliban officials, as a repair of their “faults”.
Since 2021, the war against women is gradually won by the Taliban, helped by the silence of the international community, whose attention was paid to Ukraine and then Gaza, plunging Afghan women into a new forgetfulness.
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