Taliban bans girls ‘listening to different girls’s voices’ in newest decree

The Taliban has as soon as once more taken steps to additional impose excessive restrictions on girls below its interpretation of sharia regulation in Afghanistan, this time banning girls from “listening to different girls’s voices” whereas they pray, experiences mentioned this week.

Khalid Hanafi, performing minister of the Vice and Advantage Ministry, made the announcement over a voice message posted to the ministry’s social media pages, although it has since been taken down, confirmed The Related Press. 

“Even when an grownup feminine prays and one other feminine passes by, she should not pray loudly sufficient for them to listen to,” he mentioned in a message reported to have been “rambling” by The Telegraph.

A Taliban fighter stands guard as girls wait to obtain meals rations distributed by a humanitarian support group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Might 23, 2023. (AP Photograph/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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Particular particulars of the ban stay unclear, as girls are already forbidden from partaking in call-to-prayer or from talking in public. They need to even be totally coated, together with their faces, below a brand new regulation decreed by the ministry in August. 

“It’s prohibited for a grown girl to recite Quranic verses or carry out recitations in entrance of one other grown girl. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are usually not permitted,” Hanafi mentioned within the message reportedly posted on Monday. “So, there’s definitely no permission for singing.”

The ban on public talking enforced in August additionally implies that girls talking inside their houses shouldn’t be in a position to be heard from outdoors.

A burqa-clad girl walks with kids alongside a avenue in Argo district of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan on Sept. 26, 2024. (Omer Abrar/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

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This newest ban seems to be an try and bar girls from praying or from utilizing expressions like “subhanallah” – which is a typical phrase basically which means “Glory be to Allah” – even whereas in their very own houses if they’re in entrance of different girls. 

The Taliban have claimed these extraordinarily oppressive measures on girls are a transfer to cease them from “temptation and tempting others,” and girls in Afghanistan are required to have a male guardian each time they depart their houses. 

Girls who’re discovered to have defied the foundations are arrested and imprisoned. 

An Afghan girl searches for recyclable supplies amid plastic waste at a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on Sept. 28, 2024. (Atif Aryan/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

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A report by Richard Bennett, the particular rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, was launched Monday to the U.N. He discovered situations of sexual violence, together with rape, used in opposition to girls arrested by the Taliban. 

In his report, Bennett discovered the Taliban’s “system of gender oppression might quantity to crimes in opposition to humanity, together with gender persecution.”

Bennett is ready to current the findings of his report back to the United Nations Common Meeting on Nov. 1.