Afghanistan: women's protest stopped with gunshots
Event- Country
- Afghanistan
- Initial Date
- Oct 2, 2022
- Event Description
The Taliban rebels have scattered the demonstrations of female students over Friday’s suicide bombing in Kabul at Herat University by opening fire, sources said.
According to sources, the Taliban opened fire near the protesters to prevent the march from continuing.
However, one of the protestors said that despite the Taliban’s fire, the protests are still going on.
Female students took to the streets Sunday with slogans of “stop Hazara genocide and the “right to education”.
Yesterday, a number of girls demonstrated in Kabul in response to this attack, but it was scattered by the Taliban.
Nearly 150 people were killed and injured in Friday’s deadly attack at Kaj Educational Center.
Meanwhile, Friday’s suicide bombing in Kabul sparked national and international reactions.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Student
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 34.350178490566456
Longitude: 62.2173819154103
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 2 October 2022, a number of female students were threatened with gunshots by the Taliban to stop their ongoing protest against the Hazara massacre in Herat, Afghanistan.