Taliban vice laws ban women's voices
Toronto Star|August 23, 2024
Bare faces also forbidden in group's first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws since takeover

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women's voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.

The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesperson said.

The Taliban had set up a ministry for the "propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" after seizing power in 2021.

The ministry published its vice and virtue laws on Wednesday that cover aspects of everyday life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.

They are set out in a 114-page, 35article document seen by the Associated Press and are the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since the takeover.

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