Tv presenter Nesar Nabil is seen on studio screens sporting a face masks to protest the Taliban’s new order for feminine presenters to cowl their faces, whereas studying the information on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Might 2022. | Photograph credit score: AP
An Afghan province has banned all media from displaying photographs of dwelling beings to make sure compliance with the Taliban’s ethical legal guidelines.
Thursday’s (October 24, 2024) resolution was introduced by Ministry of Info officers in Helmand, the most recent province to crack down on broadcasting and images of people and animals.
Learn additionally | Media professionals in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan ‘humiliated’ as abuses rise
In August, the nation’s Ministry of Vice and Advantage printed legal guidelines regulating elements of day by day life reminiscent of public transportation, shaving, media and celebrations that replicate the authorities’ interpretation of Islamic regulation, or Sharia. Article 17 prohibits the publication of photographs of dwelling beings.
Helmand officers mentioned filming and images of dwelling issues would cease instantly. They didn’t present additional details about the applying or the exceptions.
Final week, Taliban media stopped displaying photographs of dwelling beings in Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar provinces in compliance with the regulation.
Some personal channels have additionally reportedly stopped posting photographs and movies of dwelling beings to make sure compliance.
No different Muslim-majority nation imposes related restrictions, together with Iran and Saudi Arabia. Throughout their earlier rule within the late Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban fully banned most tv, radio and newspapers.
Learn additionally | Taliban codify ethical legal guidelines requiring Afghan girls to cowl their faces and males to develop beards
Additionally on Thursday, the Ministry of Info introduced that it had banned 400 books that clashed with Islamic and Afghan values.
Banned books have been collected from shops and publishers and changed with spiritual texts, together with the Koran.
A spokesperson for the ministry, Khubaib Ghofran, wrote in “
Revealed – October 25, 2024 10:40 am IST
