HANGZHOU, China (AP) — In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of athletes are arriving in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, looking very different.
The games official opening ceremony is on Saturday.
They have barred women from most areas of public life such as parks, gyms and work and cracked down on media freedoms.
They have banned girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade, and prohibited Afghan women from working at local and non-governmental organizations.
Rahimi said that the previous government had been working hard to increase women's participation in sport since the previous Taliban regime, and that it had increased to 20%.
Persons:
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Organizations:
—, Asian Games, Olympic, Associated Press, Afghanistan's National Olympic, NATO, United Nations
Locations:
HANGZHOU, China, Afghanistan, Hangzhou, Taliban, Afghan, Iran, Italy, Australia