Jade Abresham(Silk Way): Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, that women presenters must wear masks. The MPVPV has ordered female journalists to wear a mask during presenting TV programs.
The new decision of the Taliban was widely criticized on social media. Some Facebook users said the new decision of the Taliban was worse than burying alive the girls before Islam.
Zahra Sepehr, journalist and women’s rights activist, wrote on her Facebook account, “The story of burying alive the girls in the time of ignorance is nothing to what the Taliban doing with the women; Burying alive the women may look a bless to women by these Devils.” A video went viral on social media Taliban prevented female students to enter Kabul Education University and sent female students home for wearing the wrong color hijabs.
Taliban already had issued a decree saying men and women must go to the recreational parks on separate days.
According to the decree, a family, including men and women, can’t go to the parks on the same days together.
Following this, the Taliban announced the plan of segregation of university students in the universities. According to the plan, Girls will go to university on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday while boys will attend classes on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Based on the plan, male and female students are not allowed to attend university on the same days.
The latest controversial decree of the Taliban on Hijab was issued last week, ordering women to wear “Burqa” as the best Islamic and legal hijab. Based on the decree, if women do not observe the hijab, their guardians will be summoned and imprisoned and further decisions will be taken about them. There was also news about a couple in Herat city that the Taliban had not allowed them to go to the restaurants together.
The group has instructed Herat citizens that men and women must go to separate restaurants for serving food.
All of these actions show the Taliban are marginalizing women systematically. However, the international community, UN, and human rights organizations only issue statements of condemnation and take no practical action against the Taliban.
Add Comment