and women have only been allowed to work in a few sectors including public health and security. the internationally renowned photographer kiana hayeri has travelled across afghanistan over the past year, documenting storeys of women protests and prisons. she was at the protest in kabul and told us what she saw. we already know that the taliban was going to crack down before the protests started, there was a strong presence of taliban fighters. i probably had about five minutes to photograph, and we actually timed it from the moment the girls stepped on the street, started chanting, to the time that the taliban started firing, it was about 10 minutes less than ten minutes, actually. no one has been hurt. a bunch of foreign journalists and a few localjournalists have been arrested. a few people have been beaten up. when i learned they were going to fire, we knew theyjust wanted to intimidate and stop the women. so they ve done this in previous protests as well. they fire in the air, ju
Nearly a year since the Taliban seized power, new restrictions have reshaped the social fabric of the city. Schools and jobs are again off-limits for women, music has been banned, and beards are mandatory for men just as it was in the 1990s.
After barring girls from high school and harboring an Al-Qaeda leader the regime now risks jeopardizing the billions of dollars of global aid that still keeps Afghans alive.