Street Protest of Protesting Women in Kabul

The Afghanistan Women's History Transformation Movement released a statement today, Wednesday (September 11), coinciding with the street protest. The statement said that Afghan women, despite severe pressures and restrictions over the past three years, have continued to fight for Afghanistan's freedom, civil rights, freedom of expression, and the rights of minorities.

The movement added, "Afghan women have been fighting in the most difficult conditions for three years; a struggle that has been accompanied by imprisonment, torture, execution, rape, and stoning. Arbitrary executions, the imprisonment of women protesters, public floggings, and dozens of other cases have been repeatedly documented by international media, bearing witness to the prevailing tyranny."

According to the movement, the Taliban's latest decree has ordered the execution of 700 people, and thousands more are held in "horrific and terrifying" Taliban prisons. The movement called on the international community and human rights organizations to put pressure on the Taliban to prevent illegal mass executions, the only crime of which is resistance to "tyranny and dictatorship."

The Afghanistan Women's History Transformation Movement also warned that "the Taliban have turned Afghanistan into a safe haven for regional and international terrorists. Despite the fact that many Taliban leaders are wanted by international police, they occasionally travel freely to other countries, which poses a serious threat to regional and global security."

The movement stated that the handover of Afghanistan's diplomatic missions to the Taliban has made the group "bolder" and that this action is a kind of betrayal of the individual and social freedoms of the people of Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan Women's History Transformation Movement has called on the United Nations, world countries, and human rights organizations to support human rights, freedom of expression, and the rights of Afghan women in the face of Taliban dictatorship. They considered the establishment of a democratic government to be the only solution to the current crisis.