Eva Green Instagram – The Taliban has reportedly banned girls in Afghanistan from attending primary school in what would amount to a total ban on female education. On Tuesday, the fundamentalist regime announced that women would be banned from university education indefinitely. Yesterday, female students who showed up for class wept and consoled each other after they were turned away by security forces, forced to reckon with the loss of their imagined futures – and the further tightening of the same extreme misogynist ideology that the Taliban once promised would not return. This news follows a series of recent edicts which suggest that the most fundamentalist voices within the Taliban are now dominant. A number of Afghan civil and women’s rights activists abroad have issued a joint statement calling for the Taliban to reverse “this medieval crime” that will “impose absolute isolation on Afghan women and girls and expose women to violence, poverty and exploitation”. Zahra Joya used to run Rukhshana Media, a news agency she founded to report on the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan, from a small office in Kabul. Forced to flee after the Taliban seized power last year, she relocated to London. Yesterday she wrote a piece for the Guardian, speaking to women facing the abrupt end of their education – even if they were close to graduating. The quote above was written by student Sakina Sama on Facebook. Joya has spoken with more women and girls about their experiences – and it’s a heart-wrenching read. Follow the link in bio for her full piece. Archive image by @hoshanghashimi for AFP. #Afghanistan #women #girls #education Repost from The @guardian. Article link in bio.