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Afghanistan: Taliban replace women’s ministry with ‘moral police’

The Taliban seems to have abolished it today Ministry of Women’s Affairs and replaced it with “moral police“, Known for its fundamentalist positions during the first rule of the Islamists, 20 years ago.

Workers replaced the signs in the building of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs with others that read “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Corruption”, reports APE BPE, which cites telegrams from Reuters and AFP.

Ministry staff said they had been trying to get to work for several weeks but were told to return to home their. Finally, the gates of the building were sealed on Thursday.

Many messages have been posted on social networking sites showing employees to demonstrate outside the building because they lost their jobs, according to the same sources.

«Nobody listens to our women“, Wrote a woman on Twitter. «What to expect from these beasts?Another replied.

Afghanistan: The Taliban did not comment on the development

Representatives of the Taliban not responded to the request to comment on this development.

Although they insisted that they would rule more moderately than in the period 1996-2001, the Taliban not allowed most women to return to work, according to international news agencies. They also introduced dress code for female students.

Moreover, no woman does not participate in its interim cabinet Afghanistan announced two weeks ago.

In the period 1996-2001 women were excluded from public life. They could not leave their home unless they were accompanied by a male relative.

In fact, members of the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Corruption often whipped women if they walked alone.

Their mission was also to make sure that everyone strictly adhered to them rules imposed by the Taliban, such as the obligatory participation in prayer and the prohibition of men shaving.

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