The Taliban is reportedly implementing a ban towards sure media retailers airing “photographs of dwelling beings” in Afghanistan.
An Afghan official confirmed the information to the Related Press on Tuesday. The militant group, via its Vice and Advantage Ministry, is at the moment implementing the rule in sure provinces, and it’s unclear when or if it’s going to apply to all media retailers throughout the nation, together with overseas media.
The brand new rule displays legal guidelines introduced by the Vice and Advantage Ministry in August, which additionally banned girls’s voices and naked faces. The laws marked the primary declaration of such guidelines in Afghanistan because the Taliban took over after the U.S. withdrawal.
Article 17 of the laws, which was authorised by supreme chief Hibatullah Akhundzada, bans the publication of any photographs depicting dwelling beings.
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FILE – TV anchor Nesar Nabil is seen on studio screens carrying a face masks to protest the Taliban’s new order that feminine presenters cowl their faces, as he reads the information on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Might 22, 2022. (AP Picture/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Vice and Advantage Ministry spokesman Saif ul Islam Khyber confirmed that media within the Afghan provinces of Maidan Wardak, Kandahar and Takhar have been suggested to not present photographs of something with a soul.
Aghan Unbiased Journalists Union director Hujjatullah Mujadidi reported that state media was instantly advised to not air such photographs by the ministry. It was later prolonged to all media within the provinces.
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FILE – TV anchor Nesar Nabil wears a face masks to protest the Taliban’s new order that feminine presenters cowl their faces, as he reads the information on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Might 22, 2022. (AP Picture/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
“Final night time, unbiased native media (in some provinces) additionally stopped operating these movies and pictures and are as an alternative broadcasting nature movies,” Mujadidi stated.
Afghanistan is the one Muslim-majority nation implementing this broadcasting rule. The extremity of the laws introduced by the Vice and Advantage Ministry brought about worldwide concern, particularly the legal guidelines pertaining to girls.
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A Taliban fighter stands guard as girls wait to obtain meals rations distributed by a humanitarian assist group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Might 23, 2023. (AP Picture/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
The Vice and Advantage Ministry deemed that ladies’s voices had been thought of too “intimate” and banned girls from singing or studying aloud in public. The laws additionally requires girls to put on veils in public.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
