In power in Afghanistan, the Taliban forbade women to play sports, in the same way as to study in most schools or to access many professional sectors. Afghan female athletes posed anonymously for a photographer from the AP news agency, equipped with the equipment of the sport practiced in their “before life”. Although they do not necessarily wear the burqa on a daily basis, they have preferred to hide their identity in this way, for fear of reprisals from the Taliban… and because some of them continue to train in secret. Images.
Here, a women’s soccer team pictured in Kabul on September 22, 2022.
© Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/SIPA (published on 01/12/2023)