Afghan Women protest for their rights

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The group of protesters, who also marched through the streets, held up signs and chanted, “We Afghan women are all together.”

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will lead a new Afghan government which is set to be announced soon, sources in the group said on Friday (September 3).

The Taliban enforced a radical form of sharia, or Islamic law, in particular oppressing women, when it ruled in 1996-2001.

Although the movement has tried to present a more conciliatory face to the world in recent weeks, many Afghans and the West have cast doubt on the assurances.