After an internet interruption across the country last week, access to websites Facebook; Instagram and Snapchat has been ‘deliberately confined’ to Afghanistanit became known today by the Netblocks cyber security monitoring organization.

Yesterday, on these social media as in Tiktok – which had already been banned in 2022 on the grounds that it was “pushing the younger generation to sterilize” – from time to time, “smart mobile” and WiFi connections could not be accessed by the French agency and others.

“Restrictions are now confirmed by various providers, which demonstrates a deliberate action,” Netblocks explains at the French News Agency (AFP).

In the country of 48 million residents, Facebook counts 4 million users and 1.3 million Instagram.

These restrictions “mainly affect mobile services, but some fixed internet connections are also affected,” Netblocks said.

In contact with AFP, the Taliban authorities did not want to comment on it.

In early September, authorities had begun to interrupt broadband internet connections to many provinces in order to prevent “moral corruption”, at the behest of the Taliban leader Haibatoulah Ahundzanda.

These new constraints are deprived of an Afghans a source of information and entertainment, citizens said today at the French News Agency.

“I am very sad, Instagram is the main means of keeping in touch with my friends who left abroad,” describes Gezal, a 24 -year -old artist who also presents her works on a page on Instagram.

Sarah, 21, does not hide her concern about the impact of this Afghans exclusion, already targeted after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 by a series of restrictions, imposed on the basis of an extremely strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Women can no longer deal with many professions or travel without a companion and are forbidden to go to school beyond elementary school, walking in parks or frequenting a gym.

“Here, women have already been excluded from everywhere, we can no longer study or go to libraries, there is no longer anything to do but spend time on social media,” she says.

“The impact will be awesome for online stores but also on a psychological level,” he said.