To protest the Taliban’s decision, some male university teachers resigned from their jobs, and dozens of male students walked out of exams.
Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by The Associated Press showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus in Kabul.
The country’s Taliban rulers a day earlier ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. The Taliban-led administration has not given a reason for the ban or reacted to the fierce and swift global condemnation of it.
Journalists saw Taliban forces outside four Kabul universities Wednesday. The forces stopped some women from entering, while allowing others to go in and finish their work. They also tried to prevent any photography, filming and protests from taking place.
Rahimullah Nadeem, a spokesman for Kabul University, confirmed that classes for female students had stopped. He said some women were allowed to enter the campus for paperwork and administrative reasons, and that four graduation ceremonies were held Wednesday.
Members of an activist group called the Unity and Solidarity of Afghanistan Women gathered outside the private Edrak University in Kabul on Wednesday morning, chanting slogans in Dari.
“Do not make education political!” they said. “Once again university is banned for women. We do not want to be eliminated!”
On Wednesday, to protest the Taliban’s decision, some male university teachers resigned from their jobs, and dozens of male students walked out of exams, submitting blank papers, CBS News’ Ahmad Mukhtar reports.
“To make my protest against the unjust and immoral ban on girls’ education… I have resigned from my position as a faculty member at Kabul University. I am opposing this brutal clampdown on girls education even if I have to stand alone,” Obaidullah Wardak, a male lecturer at Kabul University, tweeted.
Sifatullah Bahij, a male lecturer at Kabul’s Polytechnic University, said, “I have served the faculty of Civil Engineering in KPU (Kabul Polytechnic University) for over 8 years, but despite rich experience and a Ph.
