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full screen Women are now forbidden to talk outside their homes. Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi / AP
The Taliban forbid women to talk outside the home.
According to the government in Afghanistan, it can “tempt the men”.
– It is an indication of their hatred of women, says former vice president Fawzia Koofi.
The Taliban have introduced a slew of new laws on “decency and virtue” aimed at women in Afghanistan.
Now, among other things, they have to cover their entire bodies and faces in thick clothes so as not to tempt men.
But they are also forbidden from talking when they are outside the home.
“When an adult woman leaves her home, she is obliged to hide her voice, her face and her body,” the new laws state according to The Guardian.
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full screen According to the government in Afghanistan, it can “tempt the men”. Photo: Siddiqullah Alizai / AP
“Unbelievably scary”
Women are also not allowed to look at men they are not related to. And taxi drivers who drive women unaccompanied by men will be punished, the Taliban announced.
Fawzia Koofi, the human rights activist who was the first female vice president of the Afghan parliament, is furious with the announcement.
– The Taliban government does not have any kind of legitimacy and these new laws designed to further oppress women are an indication of their hatred of women, she tells The Guardian and continues:
– When they say women can’t speak in public because they consider women’s voices a form of intimacy, it’s incredibly scary, but the whole world acts like this is normal. There has been very little reaction to what is happening and the Taliban is being strengthened by this indifference.