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WASHINGTON, April 28 (AFP) - Two women dressed in the restrictive full-face and body covering that has come to symbolize Taliban rule gathered with others here Friday to protest human rights abuses in Afghanistan. "Our people have paid a heavy price" since the Taliban took control a few years ago, declared Sajeda Hayat, spokeswoman for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). The Taliban have imposed severe restrictions on women in Afghanistan, including a complete ban on women working outside the home, or even leaving the home unless accompanied by a very close male relative, and the whipping of women in public for having uncovered ankles. On Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned what it said were massacres and widespread human rights violations in Afghanistan. A resolution adopted without a vote criticized systematic rights abuses against civilians and forcible displacements, particularly of women and children. Hayat and other speakers at the small protest, many holding posters and a photograph of two amputated hands, demanded the international community impose sanctions on Afghanistan. "The situation there is getting worse day by day," Hayat said. "Since the Taliban took power, women are completely deprived of all their basic human rights."
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