Ban on Women’s Recreation; Bar: Walls are closing in on women step by step

Bayan News – Several days after the ban on women and girls traveling to the Bamyan amusement park (Band-e Amir), various human rights organizations express concerns over the increasing restrictions against women.

Hyder Bar, the deputy head of the Women’s Section at the Human Rights Watch organization, recently stated in an interview with a French news agency that the decision to prohibit women from entering this park was intentionally made.

He said, “The Taliban doesn’t settle for depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, but they are also attempting to take away parks, stadiums, and now even nature from them.”

According to Ms. Bar, walls are closing in on women and girls, to the extent that every home turns into a women’s prison.

However, officials of the Kabul interim government claim that the temporary closure of Band-e Amir in Bamyan was carried out according to the wishes of local elders and religious scholars of the province, as the ladies who were coming for recreation were not observing the hijab.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice added that once specific guidelines are prepared, this restriction will be implemented for women.

Nevertheless, senior government officials believe that despite the restrictions and current regulations, women and girls still do not adhere to the hijab in the country.