The new laws are part of a 114-page package that covers aspects of everyday life, from public transport and music to shaving and parties.
24.8. 21:46•Updated 24.8. 21:58
The Taliban, the extremist organization that rules Afghanistan, has enacted new laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces from public spaces.
The laws were enacted on Wednesday after a top Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada had first accepted them, the spokesman for the Taliban regime says.
The Taliban established the Ministry of “Propagation of Chastity and Prevention of Vice” after seizing power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The new laws are part of a 114-page package that covers aspects of everyday life, from public transport and music to shaving and parties. This is the first official promulgation of chastity and vice laws since the Taliban came to power.
According to the laws, women must cover their bodies and faces in public places to avoid temptation. Clothing must not be tight, thin or short.
Women must cover themselves in front of all male strangers and all non-Muslims to avoid defilement. As a woman’s voice is private by law, women cannot be heard singing, reciting or reading aloud in public.
Women are not allowed to look at men who are not related to them by family or marriage. The same goes for men.
The legal package also prohibits, among other things, the playing of music, the transportation of women traveling alone, and unrelated men and women staying in the same space. Those traveling and driving in traffic must also pray at the designated prayer times.
Now publishing pictures of living beings is also prohibited, which further threatens the activities of the Afghan media.
Source: AP