Taliban bans women 'hearing other women's voices' in latest decree

The Taliban has erstwhile again taken steps to further enforce utmost restrictions connected women nether its mentation of sharia rule successful Afghanistan, this clip banning women from "hearing different women’s voices" while they pray, reports said this week.

Khalid Hanafi, acting minister of the Vice and Virtue Ministry, made nan announcement complete a sound connection posted to nan ministry’s societal media pages, though it has since been taken down, confirmed The Associated Press. 

"Even erstwhile an big female prays and different female passes by, she must not believe loudly capable for them to hear," he said successful a connection reported to person been "rambling" by The Telegraph.

A Taliban combatant stands defender arsenic women hold to person nutrient rations distributed by a humanitarian assistance group successful Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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Specific specifications of nan prohibition stay unclear, arsenic women are already forbidden from engaging successful call-to-prayer aliases from speaking successful public. They must besides beryllium afloat covered, including their faces, nether a caller rule decreed by nan ministry successful August. 

"It is prohibited for a grown female to singing Quranic verses aliases execute recitations successful beforehand of different grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted," Hanafi said successful nan connection reportedly posted connected Monday. "So, location is surely nary support for singing."

The prohibition connected nationalist speaking enforced successful August besides intends that women speaking wrong their homes should not beryllium capable to beryllium heard from outside.

A burqa-clad female walks pinch children on a thoroughfare successful Argo territory of Badakhshan Province successful Afghanistan connected Sept. 26, 2024. (Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images)

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This latest prohibition appears to beryllium an effort to barroom women from praying aliases from utilizing expressions for illustration "subhanallah" – which is simply a communal building fundamentally meaning "Glory beryllium to Allah" – moreover while successful their ain homes if they are successful beforehand of different women. 

The Taliban person claimed these extremely oppressive measures connected women are a move to extremity them from "temptation and tempting others," and women successful Afghanistan are required to person a antheral guardian whenever they time off their homes. 

Women who are recovered to person defied nan rules are arrested and imprisoned. 

An Afghan female searches for recyclable materials amid integrative discarded astatine a garbage dump connected nan outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif connected Sept. 28, 2024. (Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images)

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A study by Richard Bennett, nan typical rapporteur connected quality authorities successful Afghanistan, was released Monday to nan U.N. He recovered instances of intersexual violence, including rape, utilized against women arrested by nan Taliban. 

In his report, Bennett recovered nan Taliban’s "system of gender oppression whitethorn magnitude to crimes against humanity, including gender persecution."

Bennett is group to coming nan findings of his study to nan United Nations General Assembly connected Nov. 1.