Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have enacted a set of morality laws that impose strict regulations on women and men..Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have gradually reintroduced restrictive edicts, including banning girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade and prohibiting women from traveling without a male relative. The use of mobile phones in universities and international media broadcasts has also been restricted during the Taliban's rule..The Vice and Virtue Laws, approved by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, represent the first formalization of previous moral-related edicts. They include the following measures:.Women must cover their faces and bodies in public;Women's voices are banned from being heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public;Men are required to grow beards;Playing music in cars is prohibited;The publication of images of living beings is banned;Men and women are barred from mixing in public if unrelated;Drivers and passengers must perform prayers at designated times..The laws also empower the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the institution in charge of promoting Islamic law, granting it the authority to give warnings, to arrest, and to punish Afghans who have broken the morality code.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have enacted a set of morality laws that impose strict regulations on women and men..Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have gradually reintroduced restrictive edicts, including banning girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade and prohibiting women from traveling without a male relative. The use of mobile phones in universities and international media broadcasts has also been restricted during the Taliban's rule..The Vice and Virtue Laws, approved by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, represent the first formalization of previous moral-related edicts. They include the following measures:.Women must cover their faces and bodies in public;Women's voices are banned from being heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public;Men are required to grow beards;Playing music in cars is prohibited;The publication of images of living beings is banned;Men and women are barred from mixing in public if unrelated;Drivers and passengers must perform prayers at designated times..The laws also empower the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the institution in charge of promoting Islamic law, granting it the authority to give warnings, to arrest, and to punish Afghans who have broken the morality code.
