Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran on September 16, 2024. — Reuters TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed Monday to ensure the morality police will no longer “bother” women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in … Read more
KABUL: Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered Afghan officials to enact a sweeping new morality law curtailing women’s rights and enshrining an austere vision of Islamic society. Taliban authorities last month announced the law, which includes rules that women’s faces, bodies and voices should be “covered” outside the home, among 35 articles dictating behaviour and lifestyle. … Read more
KABUL: A Taliban government spokesman has said the Afghan authorities were committed to engagement with the international community after a new morality law sparked tense exchanges over women’s rights. The United Nations and the European Union have warned that the law — requiring women to cover up completely and not raise their voices in public … Read more
Afghan women walk along a road at a market area in Kandahar. — AFP/File Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities responded on Monday to criticism of recently codified morality rules, saying rejecting the legislation without understanding Islamic law showed “arrogance”. Women must cover completely and not raise their voices in public, among other rules restricting women’s movements and … Read more
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Monday that a recently ratified morality law would be enforced “gently”, after the international community and Afghans voiced concern over new restrictions. Women must cover completely and not raise their voices in public, according to a 35-article law announced on Wednesday by the justice ministry. It imposes wide-ranging stipulations … Read more
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said. The rules, promoted as in line with Islamic Sharia law and to be enforced by the … Read more