Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban

Afghan women students stand outside Kabul University, Afghanistan, on Wednesday December 21 2022 (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital have been enforcing a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities – with video showing women weeping and consoling each other outside a Kabul campus.

On Tuesday, the country’s Taliban rulers ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities until further notice.