{"id":36780,"date":"2021-09-12T22:26:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/afghan-women-university-female-only-classrooms-taliban-say"},"modified":"2021-09-12T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:26:54","slug":"afghan-women-at-university-must-study-in-female-only-classrooms-taliban-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36780","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women at university must study in female-only classrooms, Taliban say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic dress code will be compulsory as new regime enforces gender segregation in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have announced that women in Afghanistan will only be allowed to study at university in gender-segregated classrooms and Islamic dress will be compulsory, stoking fears that a gender apartheid will be imposed on the country under the new regime.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a> raised their flag over the presidential palace on the 20th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks, signalling that their work governing the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/taliban-name-afghanistans-new-government\">Islamic emirate<\/a> had begun. The white banner bearing a Qur\u2019anic verse was hoisted by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the interim Taliban government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/afghan-women-university-female-only-classrooms-taliban-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic dress code will be compulsory as new regime enforces gender segregation in AfghanistanThe Taliban have announced that women in Afghanistan will only be allowed to study at university in gender-segregated classrooms and Islamic dress will be com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780\/revisions\/36781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}