Afghanistan's Ministry of Vice and Virtue set out nine rules this week, a Taliban administration spokesman said. The restrictions included a ban on television dramas that included female actors and ordering women news presenters to wear ‘Islamic hijab’
KABUL, Nov 23 - The Taliban administration has released a set of restrictions on Afghan media, including banning television dramas that included female actors and ordering women news presenters to wear "Islamic hijab".
Some edicts were targeted specifically at women, a move likely to raise concerns among the international community."Those dramas...or programmes in which women have acted, should not be aired," the rules said, adding that female journalists on air should wear "Islamic hijab" without defining what that meant.
Though most women in Afghanistan wear headscarves in public, the Taliban's statements that women should wear "Islamic hijab" have often in the past worried women's rights activists who say the term is vague and could be interpreted conservatively. "The disappearance of any space for dissent and worsening restrictions for women in the media and arts is devastating," said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at HRW, in a statement.
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