Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all feminine presenters on TV channels to cowl their faces on air, the nation’s largest media outlet mentioned Thursday.
The order got here in a press release from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry, tasked with imposing the group’s rulings, in addition to from the Information and Culture Ministry, the TOLOnews channel mentioned in a tweet. The assertion referred to as the order “final and non-negotiable,” the channel mentioned.
The assertion was despatched to the Moby Group, which owns TOLOnews and a number of other different TV and radio networks, and the tweet mentioned it was being utilized to different Afghan media as nicely.
An Afghan native media official confirmed his station had obtained the order and was instructed it was not up for dialogue. He mentioned the station has no different choice. He spoke on situation he and his station not be recognized for worry of issues with the authorities.
Several feminine anchors and presenters posted their photographs on social media displaying them with their faces coated with face masks throughout presenting packages. One outstanding TOLO presenter, Yalda Ali, posted a video of herself placing on a face masks with a caption: “a woman being erased, on orders from the Virtue and Vice Ministry.”
On one station, Shamshad TV, implementation of the order was blended: One girl anchor appeared with a face masks Thursday, whereas one other later within the day went with out, displaying her face.
During the Taliban’s first time in energy from 1996-2001, they imposed overwhelming restrictions on ladies, requiring them to put on the all-encompassing burqa that even coated the eyes with a mesh and barring them from public life and training.
After they seized energy once more in Afghanistan in August, the Taliban initially appeared to have moderated considerably their restrictions, asserting no costume code for girls. But in latest weeks, they’ve taken a pointy, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists.
Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered all ladies in public to put on head-to-toe clothes that leaves solely their eyes seen. The decree mentioned ladies ought to go away the house solely when obligatory and that male relations would face punishment for girls’s costume code violations, beginning with a summons and escalating to courtroom hearings and jail time.
The Taliban chief additionally issued a decree barring women from attending faculty after the sixth grade, reversing earlier guarantees by Taliban officers that women of all ages could be allowed an training.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
