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'Being a woman is a crime’: Female student in Afghanistan makes powerful statement in men’s clothes

‘I have been forced to wear men’s clothes to show that no man is willing to stand up for women's rights.’

Scroll Staff
Jan 04, 2023 · 06:39 pm

A female student of Herat university recorded a video of herself wearing men's clothes because "being a woman in Afghanistan is now a crime."

She asks the world not forget them as they fight for Afghanistans freedom.

"This time it's a women's revolution"

به امید آزادی. pic.twitter.com/JATN2arKad

— Shabnam Nasimi (@NasimiShabnam) January 3, 2023
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