A poster of Taliban supreme chief Hibatullah Akhundzada. | Picture credit score: AFP
Taliban supreme chief Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered Afghan authorities to enact a sweeping new morality legislation that curtails ladies’s rights and enshrines an austere imaginative and prescient of Islamic society.
Taliban authorities introduced the legislation final month, which incorporates guidelines stating that girls’s faces, our bodies and voices have to be “lined” outdoors the house, amongst 35 articles that dictate conduct and way of life.
Whereas lots of the measures have been carried out informally because the Taliban took energy in 2021, their formal codification sparked outrage from the worldwide neighborhood and human rights teams.
Mr. Akhundzada informed civil and navy officers “that they need to implement… the legislation on selling advantage in society,” based on a press release from the Info and Tradition Division of Faryab province.
The reclusive Akhundzada guidelines by decree from a hideout within the southern province of Kandahar, however gave the order on a uncommon journey to northern Faryab final week, based on the assertion launched on Sunday (1 September 2024).
The brand new legislation prohibits ladies from elevating their voices in public and requires them to cowl their total physique and face if they should depart their houses, which they will solely do “out of necessity.”
The conduct and costume of males are additionally strictly regulated by the edict, which orders them to not put on shorts above the knee or to trim their beards intently.
Different elements of the legislation dictate attendance at prayers, in addition to a ban on maintaining pictures of residing beings, homosexuality, animal fights, enjoying music in public and non-Muslim holidays.
The legislation establishes graduated punishments that the morality police are empowered to use, from verbal warnings to threats, fines and detentions of various lengths.
The pinnacle of the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, known as the legislation a “worrying imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Afghanistan.”
Akhundzada was in Faryab on Friday (August 29, 2024) after visiting Badghis province on his first official go to to northern Afghanistan because the Taliban takeover, stated head of Faryab’s Info and Tradition Division Shamsullah Mohammadi.
