{"id":14764,"date":"2025-12-22T23:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14764"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:45:49","slug":"protests-by-women-and-girls-in-kandahar-on-the-longest-night-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/protests-by-women-and-girls-in-kandahar-on-the-longest-night-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests by Women and Girls in Kandahar on the Longest Night of the Year."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Protests by Women and Girls in Kandahar on the Longest Night of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of women and girls in Kandahar Province, coinciding with the arrival of Yalda Night, turned the ancient tradition into a symbol of protest against the Taliban\u2019s restrictive policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local sources say the protest took place on the evening of Sunday, 21 December 2025, the first night of winter, during which demonstrators voiced their opposition to the limitations imposed on women.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the sources, a group of Kandahari girls chanted slogans such as \u201cEducation is their right,\u201d protesting bans on education, employment, and women\u2019s social participation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kandahar, the residence of Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, is widely regarded as the center from which the group\u2019s strict decrees against women have been issued over the past three years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Referring to the symbolic meaning of Yalda Night\u2014the longest night of the year\u2014the protesters said darkness is not permanent and that light will follow. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They expressed hope that the end of this long night would mark the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. The protest took place amid reports of heavy security measures, as the Taliban continue to suppress any form of women\u2019s demonstrations in Kandahar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Protests by Women and Girls in Kandahar on the Longest Night of the Year. A group of women and girls in Kandahar Province, coinciding with the arrival of Yalda Night, turned the ancient tradition into a symbol of protest against the Taliban\u2019s restrictive policies. Local sources say the protest took place on the evening of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}