With pepper spray, the Taliban disperse women demonstrating in Kabul

Since retaking power in the nation last August, the Taliban have placed limitations on Afghans, especially women.

At a women's demonstration last Sunday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, to ask for their right to work and education, the Taliban decided to disperse them using pepper spray.

Three of those involved, participants in this demonstration, were in charge of giving statements to AFP.

About 20 women gathered outside Kabul university chanting "Equality and justice!" and waving banners reading "Women's rights, human rights."

The protesters claimed that the Taliban warriors appeared in some vehicles at the scene, and dispersed them by spraying them with the shocking gas.

The Islamist group has restricted unapproved entertainment and regularly persuasively disperses those demanding rights for women.

In addition, the authorities have not allowed many women to return to work in the civil service and, from time to time, girls are rejected from schools. They have even banned television series from being broadcast due to the participation of actresses.

Restrictions on women in Afghanistan

In December, the possibility of carrying out any type of trip without veils and without a male escort, on long excursions, was prohibited for women by the Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

In addition, in this series of regulations, the reproduction of music is prohibited in the case of taxi drivers. They must also enforce the law that women must be accompanied by a man if traveling 70 km away.

The fundamentalists' Ministry of Vices also requested that music be prohibited in vehicles, a previously imposed limitation, which must be taken into account at parties and weddings.

Taxi drivers must stop their vehicles at prayer time and pray in the company of their travellers.