Several UK politicians, including Baroness Foster, are urging the England cricket team to boycott a match against Afghanistan in February to protest the Taliban regime's oppression of women.
Baroness Foster said that while she generally does not favour boycotts, the actions of the Taliban regime mark Afghanistan out as 'a rogue nation'. Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Foster has called for the England men's cricket team to boycott a match against Afghanistan . She is one of seven MPs and peers from Northern Ireland, along with more than 160 other parliamentarians, to have backed a boycott due to the Taliban regime's oppression of women.
Baroness Foster told BBC News NI 'the actions of the regime in Afghanistan absolutely mark the country out as a rogue nation, especially in relation to their continuing repression of women'. Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP Claire Hanna said Afghanistan had 'mixed sport and politics very directly by imposing such draconian restrictions on women to play sport'. Other Northern Irish politicians from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Alliance Party and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) have also joined the call for a boycott.England are due to face Afghanistan in cricket's Champions Trophy on 26 February, but some UK politicians want the team to refuse to play the 50-over match in order to take a stand against the Taliban regime's assault on women's rights.A letter to the ECB, written by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, urged England to boycott the match to 'send a clear signal' that 'such grotesque abuses will not be tolerated'.'The blatant denial of opportunities for Afghan women cricketers is appalling and forms just one element of the Taliban's unconscionable oppression of women and girls that continues unabated,' the letter continued.The letter also said that members of the Afghan women's cricket team had fled the country and are now in exile. Among those to sign the letter calling for the ECB to boycott the match are the former Labour leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Lord Kinnock, and the Reform UK leader Nigel Farag
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