The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public

Taliban bans women’s voices, bare faces from public in new restrictive laws - National

The new laws come after the Taliban already placed heavy restrictions on women's rights, including banning women and girls from attending school after Grade 6.

Taliban enacts law banning women’s voices in public spaces in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ratified a so-called morality law that tightens repression against women. It includes measures such as banning their voices from being heard in public spaces and their faces from being seen in the street: they will have to be covered under the mandatory full-face veil. It is the first formal declaration of laws “on vice and virtue” since the fundamentalist group retook power by force in August 2021 following …

Taliban place bans on women’s bare faces, sound of their voices in public

The vice and virtue laws issued Wednesday empower the ministry to be at the frontline of regulating personal conduct, administering punishments like warnings or arrest.

Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces, men to grow beards

Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music.

Taliban bans women's voices and bare faces in public

Afghanistan's Taliban has ratified a law that requires women to cover their faces with a veil and bans their voices in public.

Taliban bans the sound of womens' voices singing or reading

They fired all the officers who wouldn't grow beards, and now they're banning the sound of women's voices singing or reading, among many other new controls on public life. The Taliban is sinking in. The 114-page, 35-article document seen by The Associated Press constitutes the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in 2021, when it also set up a ministry for the "propagation of virtue and …