Dozens of women protest in Kabul against stopping girls' education

Dozens of female teachers, students and women's rights activists marched in Kabul on Saturday against the ban on girls' enrollment in schools after sixth grade.

Local media published video clips of a few dozen women with girls in school uniforms and carrying textbooks, demanding their rights to study and work in Afghanistan and want to reopen girls' schools across the country.

The Taliban had harassed participants in similar protests.

One of the organizations told the German news agency that the march began in front of the Ministry of Education in the capital and ended peacefully.

Last Wednesday, more than a million Afghan girls prepared to return to school, but were turned away following the last-minute cancellation of the Taliban's decision to reopen schools for them.

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