The Islamic group that controls Afghanistan is searching for to impose strict Sharia legislation throughout the nation
The Taliban has vowed to impose a ban on photos of people and animals within the Afghan media as a part of the Islamist group’s wider marketing campaign to implement Sharia legislation throughout the nation.
Though the Taliban initially promised to be extra reasonable proper after seizing energy in 2021, the group has since imposed many restrictions, together with the removing of photos of ladies from public areas and banning “immoral” movies and musical devices.
“The legislation applies to all Afghanistan… and it is going to be applied step by step,” Saiful Islam Khyber, the spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice, advised AFP on Monday.
Khyber claimed that “coercion has no place within the implementation of the legislation,” including that officers would deal with persuading people who the depiction of dwelling issues was “actually opposite” to Islamic legislation.
Taliban officers and authorities businesses, in addition to media shops working within the nation, proceed to commonly publish photographs of individuals on their web site and social media. Khyber, nonetheless, advised AFP that Afghan authorities have begun to work on the implementation of restrictions in some provinces.
Officers within the southern Kandahar province beforehand ordered to not take footage or movies of “dwelling issues,” however the rule didn’t lengthen to the media. In February 2024, AFP quoted Mohammad Hashem Shaheed Wror, a senior official within the Justice Ministry, as instructing workers that “taking footage is a significant sin.”
Having dominated a lot of the civil war-plagued Afghanistan within the Nineties, the Taliban was pushed out of main cities through the 2001 US-led invasion, which got here within the wake of the 9/11 terrorist assaults. The group then led a 20-year guerilla conflict towards American troops and the UN-backed authorities in Kabul. The Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital through the last stage of the withdrawal of Western forces in August 2021, forcing President Ashraf Ghani to flee the nation.
The Taliban authorities has not been acknowledged by the UN, however maintains working ties with a number of international locations, together with Russia.
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