Almost a hundred people including 82 girls, were poisoned last weekend in two schools in Afghanistan and taken to the hospital, according to official sources informed EFE, at a time when female secondary and higher education It is banned by the Taliban.

Until 56 of the primary school girls were poisoned last Saturday, in addition to three teachers, a teacher, two janitors and a parent at a school in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul, the provincial information director, Mufti Ameer, told EFE.

In the same region, another 26 female students and four female teachers were also poisoned the next day, Ameer added. According to the source, “all of the female students who were taken to the hospital had nausea and respiratory problems due to unknown persons spraying poison in the classrooms.”

However, his state of health “is good,” he added, while the authorities reported that they have already started the investigations to arrest those responsible.

This aggression takes place at a time when female secondary and university education is banned in Afghanistan, as part of the series of bans against women that the Taliban imposed since his coming to power in August 2021.

The plethora of restrictions include mandatory face coverings, gender segregation and requiring a male family member to accompany you to travel.

A series of decisions to which was added last December the veto that women work in non-governmental organizations which was harshly condemned by the international community, fearful that the humanitarian crisis that Afghanistan is experiencing will worsen.

This regression of the rights of Afghan women is increasingly reminiscent of the position taken by the Taliban during its previous regime between 1996 and 2001, when based on a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as Pashtunwali Banned female attendance at schools and confined the women in the home.