Taliban orders all female TV presenters to cover their faces while on air
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all feminine presenters on TV channels to cowl their faces on air, the nation’s greatest media outlet stated Thursday.
The order got here in a press release from the Taliban’s Advantage and Vice Ministry, tasked with implementing the group’s rulings, in addition to from the Info and Tradition Ministry, the TOLOnews channel stated in a tweet.
The assertion known as the order “remaining and non-negotiable,” the channel stated.
The assertion was despatched to the Moby Group, which owns TOLOnews and several other different TV and radio networks, and the tweet stated it was being utilized to different Afghan media as effectively.
An Afghan native media official confirmed his station had obtained the order and was informed it was not up for dialogue. He stated the station has no different possibility. He spoke on situation he and his station not be recognized for concern of issues with the authorities.
Reactions to decree
A number of feminine anchors and presenters posted their pictures on social media displaying them with their faces coated with face masks throughout presenting packages. One distinguished TOLO presenter, Yalda Ali, posted a video of herself placing on a face masks with a caption: “a girl being erased, on orders from the Advantage and Vice Ministry.”
On one station, Shamshad TV, implementation of the order was combined: One girl anchor appeared with a face masks Thursday, whereas one other later within the day went with out, displaying her face.
In the course of the Taliban’s first time in energy from 1996-2001, they imposed overwhelming restrictions on ladies, requiring them to put on the all-encompassing burqa that even coated the eyes with a mesh and barring them from public life and schooling.
After they seized energy once more in Afghanistan in August, the Taliban initially appeared to have moderated considerably their restrictions, asserting no costume code for ladies. However in latest weeks, they’ve taken a pointy, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists.
The Taliban in Afghanistan have issued a decree that orders ladies to put on head-to-toe burkas in public and to depart house solely when crucial.
Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered all ladies in public to put on head-to-toe clothes that leaves solely their eyes seen. The decree stated ladies ought to depart the house solely when crucial and that male kinfolk would face punishment for ladies’s costume code violations, beginning with a summons and escalating to courtroom hearings and jail time.
The Taliban chief additionally issued a decree barring women from attending college after the sixth grade, reversing earlier guarantees by Taliban officers that women of all ages could be allowed an schooling.
