Taliban leader orders women to wear all-covering burqa in public: Decree AFP
Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s women to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives since the Taliban seized power.
“They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful,” said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was released by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.
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“Those women who are not too old or young must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in order to avoid provocation when meeting men who are not mahram (adult close male relatives),” the decree said.
It added that if women had no important work outside it was “better they stay at home.”
During their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed similar restrictions on women.
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Silvea on May 7th, 2022 at 12:15 UTC »
The taliban are like an abusive husband that beats their wife. They make all these promises they will stop and can change to stop her from leaving. Then after a period of time, they start beating their wife again. They don’t ever change... they will always go back on their word.
satchel_of_ribs on May 7th, 2022 at 11:23 UTC »
In the days after the taliban take over there came pictures from a newspaper showing male and female workers preparing for the day showing the world that "nothing has changed here. We still have female reporters". There was also a video of a female reporter interviewing a taliban on TV.
I think about them sometimes wondering if they're still at their jobs or if they have been forced out after the world's attention slowly turned elsewhere.
Edit: did some googling. The one on TV (her name is Beheshta Arghand) fled the country just weeks after the interview.
Manadrache on May 7th, 2022 at 08:24 UTC »
Guess no one did see this coming.