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Woman cannot travel without a male chaperone and have been ordered to wear an all-covering burqa

The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban on Saturday imposed one of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to wear the all-covering burqa in public.

Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

The Taliban on Saturday ruled that Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group’s supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women that is drawing backlash from the international community and many Afghans.

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