The nation’s Vice and Virtue Ministry, in its newest clampdown on ladies’s freedom, has made it necessary for feminine information presenters to cowl their faces on air.
TOLO News’ Sebghat Sepehr presenting his bulletin in a masks (Twitter/TOLO News)
Afghanistan’s new rulers are actually closing in on the folks of the nation. What started as a bodily invasion and a sweep to energy now has bearings on the on a regular basis lives of Afghans, particularly Afghan ladies.
The nation’s Vice and Virtue Ministry, in its newest clampdown on ladies’s freedom, has made it necessary for feminine information presenters to cowl their faces on air. The new mandate, when it first got here in final week, noticed sparse compliance, which made the ruling group implement it final night.
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Soon, the boys within the rooms started overlaying their faces. Suited and never a hair misplaced, the male anchors had been breaking tales on air however with masks on their faces.
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In no time, Twitter was abuzz with the latest hashtag: #Freeherface, with journalists, women and men, Afghans and from all around the world, posting masked-up pictures of them.
Extraordinary to see male information presenters at @TOLOnews standing with feminine anchors who’ve been ordered to cowl their faces #journalismisnotacrime pic.twitter.com/VWiFowq5XD
— Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) May 22, 2022
Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered all ladies to be coated from head to toe whereas out in public and to put on garments during which solely the eyes are seen. According to the draconian decree, ladies may depart their properties solely when essential and listed punishments for male family if a lady violated the gown code. Men may even be jailed if the ladies refuse to conform.
During the Taliban’s earlier tenure in energy in Afghanistan, that they had imposed overwhelming restrictions on ladies, denying them schooling and barring them from public life, amongst different limitations.