Taliban 'bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices' in yet another brutal crackdown

The Taliban has banned women from proceeding different women's voices, successful its latest bid to power and subjugate an full gender successful Afghanistan. 

Announced connected Monday, nan caller norm is feared to mean that women will now nary longer beryllium capable to talk to each other. 

Afghanistan's curate for nan promotion of kindness and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi said: 'Even erstwhile an big female prays and different female passes by, she must not believe loudly capable for them to hear.' 

'How could they beryllium allowed to singing if they aren't moreover permitted to perceive [each other's] voices while praying, fto unsocial for thing else.'

He said these are 'new rules and will beryllium gradually implemented, and God will beryllium helping america successful each measurement we take.'

Any female who dares to break nan caller rules will beryllium arrested and sent to prison, nan panic group said.  

Since nan panic group took power of nan federation successful August 2021, aft nan US' heavy criticised exit, nan Taliban has worked to portion distant women's rights. According to nan UN, much than 70 decrees, directives, statements, and systemised practices person targeted what women tin and can't do. 

Women person already been banned from speaking loudly successful their ain homes, and are not allowed to beryllium heard outside. 

Women are besides ordered to screen their faces 'to debar enticement and tempting others', and are banned from speaking if unfamiliar men who aren't husbands aliases adjacent relatives, are present. 

'If it is basal for women to time off their homes, they must screen their faces and voices from men' and beryllium accompanied by a 'male guardian', according to nan rules approved by nan Taliban's ultimate leader.

One erstwhile Afghan civilian servant told nan Telegraph of her despondency.

'They [the Taliban] are waging an all-out warfare against us, and we person nary 1 successful nan world to perceive our voices. 

'The world has abandoned us. They near america to nan Taliban, and immoderate happens to america now is simply a consequence of Western authorities policies. 

'I consciousness depressed. The world is advancing successful exertion and having nosy pinch their lives, but present we cannot moreover perceive each other’s voice.' 

Another female told nan newspaper: 'They want america not to beryllium astatine all, and there’s thing we tin do astir it. 

'They whitethorn win astatine immoderate point, arsenic galore are taking their lives owed to nan pressure.

'They deliberation ruling Afghanistan is only astir suppressing women– we didn’t perpetrate a crime by being calved arsenic women.'

The UN reported that conscionable 1% of women judge they person power successful their communities, and that conscionable astir 1 successful 10 women knows different who has tried to perpetrate termination since nan Taliban took over. 

On apical of this, astir 1 successful 5 women said they hadn't spoken to different female extracurricular of their contiguous family successful 3 months.