Afghan athletes pose in a burqa to claim their right to sport
The rights of afghan women and girls they have been wiped out since the Taliban government came to power. The ban on women’s education in the universities of Afghanistan ordered by the Taliban aroused international condemnation and the rejection of the thousands of Afghans affected by this ban, which adds to the long list of restrictions imposed.
An Afghan boxer poses in the ring in this image.
For this reason, a group of professional athletes decided to pose in front of the lens of AP photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi to portray the sports they love but they can no longer practice. A desperate cry for help in the face of global passivity.
Although they don’t necessarily use the burqa In daily life, they chose to hide their identities with their burkas because they fear reprisals from the Taliban and because some of them continue to practice their modalities in secret.
It should be noted, another event that we have documented in The Truth Newsis when the Taliban force to cover the faces of female mannequins in Afghanistan.
Taliban uphold Islamic law
Jiujitsu is the Japanese martial art practiced by the woman in the image.
The Government of Afghanistan assured this Saturday that the restrictions imposed in relation to education, work, and free movement, are necessary to shape the reality of the country within the rules of Islamic law or sharia.
“The Islamic Emirate tries to regulate all matters in the light of the Islamic sharia. Due to its sense of responsibility towards its religion and its people, we cannot allow illegal actions in the country,” the main spokesman for the fundamentalist government said in a statement. , Zabiullah Mujahid.
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annihilation of rights
A woman practicing muay thai or thai boxing.
From the fall of kabul In August 2021, women have experienced a deterioration in their rights with restrictions such as segregation by sex in public places, the imposition of the veil or the obligation to be accompanied by a male relative on long journeys.
A reality that is increasingly similar to the time of the first fundamentalist regime between 1996 and 2001, when, according to a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as Pashtunwali, they prohibited female attendance at schools and confined women to home.
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