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

8am.af

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.