The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public
- The Taliban has published vice laws prohibiting women's voices and bare faces in public to combat vice and promote virtue.
- The laws authorize the ministry to enforce personal conduct regulations, issuing warnings or arrests for violations.
- Women must veil their bodies and wear face coverings in public to avoid temptation, with specific clothing guidelines.
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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 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 …
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