Hoda Khamosh and Mina Rafiq, two Afghan women's rights activists, told Afghanistan International that they are on a hunger strike in front of the Norwegian Parliament to demand the recognition of the gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
Khamosh and Rafiq said that they started their hunger strike on September 7.
These two activists added that they have received permission from the Norwegian police to hold a civil protest in front of the Norwegian Parliament until September 12.
They said that their hunger strike is to support women rights activists’ demands in Cologne, Germany.
On September 1, Tamana Zaryab Paryani and many other human rights activists from Afghanistan and Iran went on a hunger strike demanding the recognition of gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
They also demanded that financial aid to the Taliban must stop and political prisoners in Afghanistan must be released.
Many activists inside and outside Afghanistan have shown sympathy and solidarity with these rights activists.
Masooma Ayoubi from Kabul and Sabera Akbari from Islamabad also announced that they will go on a hunger strike joining the activists in Cologne.
Sabera Akbari, an Afghan women's rights activist from Islamabad, told Afghanistan International on Thursday, that at least 10 Afghan women's rights activists have been on hunger strike in Pakistan since the past two days.
She added that these women activists wanted to set up a sit-in tent in Islamabad, but the police did not allow them.
Referring to the hunger strike of Afghan women activists, “Freedom Now” a human rights organisation on Wednesday, said that the Taliban has imposed 64 laws in the past two years which exclude women from the public sphere.
The organisation said that it stands in solidarity with Afghan women who are "bravely fighting for their rights". It also asked the international community to take immediate action in response to the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.
