Taliban threatens to marry off female protesters to its fighters in Takhar

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan’s north-eastern province of Takhar have threatened families of female protesters that they will be forcibly married off to the group’s fighters unless the protests against the order banning women from universities stopped.

Mursal Amini, a university student in Takhar, organised an online English language class for 20 students with one of her friends teaching from outside the country. The Taliban morality police and intelligence agents stormed her house at around 11am on Tuesday, forcing her to shut down the class. She would be married off to a Taliban fighter, unless she stopped, she was told.