Jade-Abresham(Silk Way): Taliban prevented women from praying in the mosque.
Local sources say that on 17 June, the Taliban prevented women to participate in the Friday Prayers ceremony in the mosques. Taliban prevented women from performing Friday Prayers in the mosques in police district 8 of Herat, saying it was illegal for women to pray outside of the home. Taliban in Herat, also announced women do not have the right to file a complaint against their husbands in the courts.
Local sources in Herat told media that Taliban judges must not process the complaint of women against their husbands.
Local sources say that several women had filed complaints against their husbands to the court during the last weeks due to domestic violence against them but their complaints were finally rejected by the Taliban.
The local officials of the Taliban have told women that they do not have the right to file a complaint against their husbands in the courts.
A number of women in Herat have said they are not allowed to file a complaint against their husbands with the Court.
Sometimes ago, the Taliban had ordered women tailors to close their shops as it was illegal.
Taliban have also warned Herat shopkeepers not to allow women without intimates into their shops and avoid talking to them.
In another move, the Department of Ordering to Virtue and Preventing from Vice of Qandahar has installed posters in Qandahar saying uncovered women are like animals. On one poster it is written, “A Muslim woman who does not cover herself fully, she resembles herself as an animal.”
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