The Taliban imposed a brand new restrictive coverage banning Afghan ladies from utilizing their voices within the presence of different ladies, including to present restrictions on ladies's rights.
The Taliban's minister of “morality and advantage”, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, issued an announcement final week banning ladies from reciting the Koran aloud when different ladies are current, in response to Amu TV, a community based by exiled Afghan journalists after the collapse of the earlier authorities of Afghanistan.
“Since a lady is just not allowed to recite the Takbir, how may she be allowed to sing?” the minister was quoted as saying, in response to the Nationwide Put up newspaper.
Based on the Every day Telegraph newspaper in London, Hanafi said {that a} lady's voice is taken into account an “aurah”, which requires protecting, and shouldn’t be heard in public, even to different ladies.
Hanafi, who maintains shut ties to the Taliban's prime chief, is blacklisted by the UN and sanctioned by the EU.
Since regaining energy in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed quite a few restrictions on ladies, just like restrictions in place throughout their earlier rule within the Nineties, once they banned tv and music. For the previous three years, they’ve prevented Afghan women from accessing secondary and better training, college research, and jobs in authorities businesses and worldwide NGOs.
The Taliban have additionally elevated social restrictions on Afghan ladies, closing hair salons, requiring male guardians for journey, mandating full physique and face coverings, and forcing feminine information anchors to put on masks throughout broadcasts.
