Women in Afghanistan will now be forbidden from speaking and showing their faces in public. The country’s Taliban rulers issued the ban under new laws. They were approved by Afghanistan’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, before being issued on Wednesday (August 21).
After seizing power in the country in 2021, the Taliban set up a ministry for the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (MOPVPV), enforcing strict moral and religious codes based on their interpretation of Islamic law.
The Taliban, which means “students” in the Pashto language, fought alongside the Mujahideen, Afghan rebels fighting the nine-year Soviet occupation, Al Jazeera explained in 2021.
