The most repressive regime against women in the world

For around 20 years women in Afghanistan were free. Then the Taliban took power again, and many said they would not be as extreme as last time. Sadly they are more extreme.

This is what women are now banned from doing in Afghanistan:

• Showing their face in public
• Speaking in public
• Wearing anything except a full veil
• Singing
• Reading aloud
• Look directly at men they are not related to
• Go out without a male escort
• Attending secondary school
• Having a paid job
• Attending a gym

They also face flogging or stoning for adultery.

What has happened in Afghanistan is a tragedy.