タリバン、女性デモを暴力的に取り締まり　空中に発砲も

【カブールＡＦＰ＝時事】アフガニスタンの首都カブールで３０日、学校の前で抗議デモをしていた女性グループに対し、イスラム主義組織タリバンが暴力的な取り締まりを行った。空中に発砲したり、女性たちを力ずくで排除しようとしたりする様子を、複数のＡＦＰ記者が目撃した。（写真はアフガニスタン・カブールで、女性グループのデモを取材する報道陣に撮影を中止するよう、手を上げて促すタリバン戦闘員＜左＞）
　女性６人のグループは、カブール東部にある高校の前で、タリバンが今月中旬に女子生徒を中等教育から事実上排除したことに抗議し、学校に戻る権利を求めてデモをしていた。
　女性グループは「私たちのペンを折らないで、本を焼かないで、学校を閉鎖しないで」と書いた横断幕を持って抗議していたが、タリバンの警備隊に取り上げられた。女性らはデモを続行しようとしたが、タリバンに押しのけられた。現場で取材していた外国人記者は自動小銃で殴られ、撮影を止められた。
　ＡＦＰ取材班は、タリバン戦闘員が空中に発砲するのも目撃した。女性グループは学校内に避難した。
　タリバンの警備隊長はカブールに駐留する特殊部隊の隊長を名乗り、女性グループが「抗議活動に関して治安当局と調整していなかった」と主張。「他の国と同様に、わが国にも抗議デモを行う権利はあるが、事前に治安機関に知らせなければならない」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/10/01-16:14）

The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a small women's rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed.
A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after the hardline Islamist group excluded them from classes earlier this month.
The women unfurled a banner that read Don't break our pens, don't burn our books, don't close our schools, before Taliban guards snatched it from them.
They pushed back the women protesters as they tried to continue with the demonstration, while a foreign journalist was hit with a rifle and blocked from filming.
A Taliban fighter also released a brief burst of gunfire into the air with his automatic weapon, AFP journalists saw.
The demonstrators -- from a group called the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Activists -- took refuge inside the school.
Taliban guard Mawlawi Nasratullah, who led the group and identified himself as the head of special forces in Kabul, said the demonstrators did not coordinate with security authorities regarding their protest.
They have the right to protest in our country like every other country. But they must inform the security institutes before, he said.
Isolated rallies with women at the forefront were staged in cities around the country after the Taliban seized power, including in the western city of Herat where two people were shot dead.
But protests have dwindled since the government issued an order that unsanctioned demonstrations and warned of severe legal action for violators.
It has been almost two weeks since girls were prevented from going to secondary school.
The Taliban follow a strict interpretation of sharia law that segregates men and women, and have also slashed women's access to work.
They have said they need to establish the right conditions before girls can return to the classroom, but many Afghans are sceptical.