KABUL - About two dozen Afghan women chanting"bread, work, freedom" protested in the capital on Sunday against the Taliban's harsh restrictions on their rights.the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan.
Demonstrators marched for a few hundred metres before ending the rally as authorities deployed Taliban fighters in plain clothes, an AFP correspondent reported."We wanted to read out a declaration but the Taliban didn't allow it," said protester Ms Zholia Parsi. After seizing power, the Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001.shut out of secondary schools,Women have also been banned from travelling alone and can only visit public gardens and parks in the capital on days separate from men.
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