Rawadari: Taliban have detained at least 8 female teachers in 2025

Rawadari says that in 2025, the Taliban closed at least 15 private education centers, 41 English language classes, and 11 computer classes that were secretly providing education to girls. They also detained at least 13 teachers, including 8 women.
In a report released today (Wednesday, March 25), Rawadari said that in the past year, at least 276 classes in Paktika, where more than 800 girls were studying, and two literacy schools in Bamiyan were shut down.
The report states that in these schools, adult women were studying up to grade six.
Rawadari added that during 2025, Taliban officials from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice closed several education centers in districts 2, 5, 7, and 10 of Herat city, as well as in Jebrail township and the districts of Zinda Jan, Ghorian, Injil, and Guzara.
In these literacy schools, adult women were taught up to grade six.
According to the report, the Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khost shut down an education center in September last year. The center had been secretly providing education to girls aged 10 to 18, and it was run by women teachers. In one case, the Taliban detained the head of a private school in the province for providing education to girls above grade six. The teacher was later released after paying money.
The report also says that on December 23, 2025, the Taliban shut down two education centers in Lal wa Sarjangal district of Ghor province, where girls were studying subjects above grade six. The Taliban warned the heads of these centers that they would be arrested and imprisoned if they continued their activities.
Rawadari said that on January 27, 2025, the Taliban closed 46 English language and computer classes in Bamiyan and detained six people, including four female teachers, for providing education to girls.
According to the report, in Ghazni, the Taliban also shut down an English language center and a calligraphy and painting center during the past year for providing education to women. The staff were detained for one to six hours.
Rawadari added that on October 10 last year, officials from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Ghazni expelled several female students from two private schools and beat some of them. The report says these girls were secretly studying in grade seven when they were identified by the officials. They were expelled, and four of them were beaten with sticks during an argument over girls being denied education. The father of one of the students told Rawadari that marks of the beating were visible on the back of his 15-year-old daughter.
The report states that the Taliban warned the heads of these two schools that if they continued teaching girls above grade six, their schools would be closed and they would be imprisoned.