- Taliban issues clarification regarding women’s communications.
- “A woman can talk to another woman,” says PVPV spox.
- Khaybar denies the reports, describing them as “mindless” and “illogical.”
The Taliban government’s Ministry of Ethics said that women in Afghanistan are not prohibited from speaking to each other Agence France-Presse On Saturday, denying what was recently reported in the media about his ban.
Afghan media based outside the country and international media have reported in recent weeks about a ban on women hearing the voices of other women, based on an audio recording of the head of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Muhammad Khalid. Hanafi, in the rulings on prayer.
PVP spokesman Saif al-Islam Khyber said in an audio recording that these reports were “mindless” and “illogical.” Agence France-Presse.
“A woman can talk to another woman, women need to interact with each other in society, and women have their needs,” he said.
Women in Afghanistan are banned from singing or reciting poetry out loud in public, according to a recently passed “vice and virtue” law that details sweeping codes of conduct, including that women’s voices must be “disguised” with their bodies when outside their homes.
Women’s voices were also banned from television and radio broadcasting in some governorates.
The law regulates many of the rules imposed by the Taliban government based on its own interpretation of Islamic law since it came to power in 2021, with women bearing the brunt of restrictions that the United Nations has called “gender apartheid.”
Taliban authorities prohibited post-secondary education for girls and women, and prohibited them from working in various jobs as well as in parks and other public places.
The Taliban government said that all rights of Afghan citizens were guaranteed under its rule.