Afghan Women Hold Protest in Kabul Against Taliban’s Crackdown On Beauty Salons

A group of Afghan women protested against the Taliban’s order to shutdown beauty salons in Kabul. Video clips received by Afghanistan International show dozens of women gathered in the Share Naw area, chanting "bread, work, justice".

In the video, it can also be seen that Taliban members are trying to disperse the gathering of the women protesters with water cannons.

Recently, the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevent of Vice of the Taliban handed out a one-month ultimatum to owners of beauty salons to shut down their operations.

According to Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, about 60,000 women will lose their jobs due to the closure of beauty salons in Afghanistan.

After Taliban’s brutal crackdown on women’s demonstration in Afghanistan, this is the first women's protest in recent months under the group’s reign.