Taliban Sending Afghan Women to Prison for Protection, UN Report Reveals

Elimination of Women's Protection Centers and Increased Restrictions Highlight Taliban's Approach to Gender-Based Violence

The Taliban are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, according to a United Nations report.
Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan, which have now all been eliminated.
Women are sent to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if their male relatives are considered unsafe.
Women and girls have been increasingly confined to their homes since the Taliban takeover in 2021, barred from education beyond sixth grade, public spaces, and most jobs.
A Taliban decree in July ordered the closure of all beauty salons, one of the few remaining places that women could go to outside the home or family environment.