Taliban crackdown on rights ‘suffocating’ women – Amnesty

Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organised by the World Food Programme in Kabul (AP)

The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the Taliban since they took power nearly a year ago, Amnesty International said.

After they captured the capital, Kabul, in August 2021 and ousted the internationally backed government, the Taliban presented themselves as having moderated since their first time in power, in the 1990s.