Taliban prevents female students from entering university wearing "colored headscarves"

A video is circulating on social media showing Taliban forces preventing female students wearing colorful headscarves from entering the entrance to Kabul Teacher Training University.

A girl in the video says that the Taliban have prevented students wearing colorful headscarves from entering and attending, saying that the Taliban had previously warned about this issue.

The Taliban had previously warned female students to refrain from wearing colored headscarves and instead wear black ones.

Previously, the Taliban introduced an odd-even plan to segregate universities by gender, whereby female students would attend classes on odd days and male students on even days.

The Taliban have designated a type of burqa, or long black veil, as the legal Islamic veil.

The Taliban, which had previously claimed that it did not want to behave like its previous regime, appears to have increased restrictions on women's rights.

The Taliban government has recently ordered all government employees to grow beards and wear clothing approved by them, has banned women from flying without a male guardian, and has not opened schools to girls, contrary to previous promises.

The Taliban have also ordered that parks be segregated by gender, with women allowed in three days a week and men allowed in four other days, including weekends. This means that even couples and families cannot go to the park together.

Source: Voice of America