Women’s Powerful Movement: The Taliban Cut Internet to Hide Their Crimes and Silence Women’s Voices

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The Afghanistan Women’s Powerful Movement, in reaction to the Taliban’s widespread internet shutdown, stated that this action is not a technical restriction but a deliberate tool to hide the Taliban’s crimes and silence the voices of Afghan women.

In a statement issued by the movement it was said: “Cutting off the internet is not merely a technical measure; this decision is part of the Taliban’s project to isolate Afghan society, silence the voices of women, and prevent the exposure of their crimes against our people.”

The movement emphasized that women are the most harmed by these policies, as the internet is their only window to education, awareness, and civil resistance. According to them, by closing even this window, the Taliban are practically trying to turn Afghanistan into a “prison of silence.”

Members of the Afghan Women’s Empowerment Movement warned that the Taliban must be held accountable for this illegal act. They called on the international community, human rights organizations, and defenders of freedom of expression to immediately take a stance against this action and apply practical pressure to restore free access to the internet.

The statement also called on independent media and freedom-seeking forces to echo the voices of Afghan women against this “systematic censorship.” In addition, it urged the people of Afghanistan, especially women and youth, to create solidarity networks and alternative methods of communication to prevent the Taliban from achieving their goal of “completely silencing society.”

The movement emphasized at the end: “The people of Afghanistan do not deserve silence. Afghan women will never allow the Taliban to draw a wall of silence around them by cutting off the internet. We will continue our struggle for freedom, equality, and justice with even greater strength.”

The movement also called on Elon Musk, owner of global internet networks, to provide satellite internet to the people of Afghanistan, an internet outside the Taliban’s control that would allow deprived girls and women to access online educational opportunities.

This comes as the Taliban in recent weeks have cut internet services in various provinces, an action that has drawn widespread domestic and international reactions. Human rights activists consider this a tool for suppressing freedom of expression and concealing the Taliban’s human rights violations and crimes.