Recent reports have revealed that the Taliban in Afghanistan has implemented further extreme restrictions on women under its interpretation of sharia law. The latest ban prohibits women from hearing other women's voices while they pray, as announced by Khalid Hanafi, the acting minister of the Vice and Virtue Ministry.
Hanafi's message, which was shared on the ministry's social media pages before being taken down, emphasized that adult females praying should not do so loudly enough for others to hear, even if another woman passes by. This new restriction adds to the existing prohibitions that prevent women from engaging in call-to-prayer, speaking in public, reciting Quranic verses, or performing recitations in front of other women.
