Kabul, May 22 (EFE).- Female television presenters and reporters in Afghanistan appeared with their faces covered on Sunday to comply with a mandate issued by the Taliban. “(The) burqa and all other things which are being imposed on us will not stop us and we will continue our battle for our rights,” Basira Joya, an …
Female presenters on Afghanistan’s leading news channels went on air with their faces covered yesterday, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television.
Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society, many focused on reining in the rights of women and girls to comply with the group’s austere brand of Islam.
Earlier this month, Afghanistan’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a diktat for women to cover up fully in public, including their faces, ideally with the traditional burqa.
The feared Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordered
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