The Taliban have been revisiting rulings made under the US-backed government, overturning thousands of cases.

There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest.

These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a child bride.

They are the same papers a Taliban court has invalidated - a victim of the group’s hardline interpretation on Sharia (religious law) which has seen women effectively silenced in Afghanistan’s legal system.

Nazdana’s divorce is one of tens of thousands of court rulings revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month.

  • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    Watch your back. You might hurt it contorting that much to make every world problem the US’s fault.

    As if this religion (and many others, yes) didn’t always have this problem.

    • eacapesamsara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      It’s weird seeing bigotry normalized to the point you people think what you just said is an okay thing to say.

      • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Sorry. It’s not okay to oppress women (or anyone else). Don’t give a fuck what any religion says.