Afghanistan: female students beaten up for demanding access to university

Event
Country
  • Afghanistan
Initial Date
Oct 30, 2022
Event Description

The Taliban beat up female protestors at Badakhshan University and suppressed the demonstration.

A number of female students in Badakhshan protested on Sunday morning (October 30th) after they were prevented from entering the university campus by the Taliban.

The Taliban did not allow these students to enter Badakhshan University because they did not wear burqas and wore local clothes.

Sources added that the intelligence of the Taliban has also arrested another group of girls from the Badakhshan University dormitory who were chanting death slogans against the Taliban on the roads in Shahr-e Naw, Faizabad city.

The Taliban have already deployed more forces to prevent students from going to the university classes, according to sources.

This is while the protests of female students in Herat, Balkh, Kabul and Bamiyan were also suppressed by the Taliban and a number of students were arrested and tortured.

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Woman
Violation
  • (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
  • Violence (physical)
Rights Concerned
  • Freedom of assembly
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to education
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
  • Right to liberty and security
  • Right to Protest
HRD
  • Student
  • WHRD
Perpetrator-Non-State
  • Non-state
Source

8am.media

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 37.118453368564886

Longitude: 70.5772808243911

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 30 October 2022, a group of female students were beaten by the Taliban and others were allegedly arrested for staging a protest to demand their access to the University of Badakhshan, Afghanistan.