Afghanistan: Taliban ask televisions to avoid broadcasting series showing women – Franceinfo

Women less and less visible in Afghanistan. The Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice called on Afghan televisions to avoid showing series showing women, as part of news “religious directives” aired Sunday, November 21. He also asks them to ensure that women journalists wear “the Islamic veil” on the screen, without specifying whether it is a simple scarf, already usually worn on Afghan televisions, or a more covering veil.

“Televisions must avoid showing soap operas and series in which women have played”, announces a document of the ministry for the attention of the media. “It is not about rules, but about religious directives”Ministry spokesman Hakif Mohajir told AFP.

Afghan televisions are also called upon to avoid programs “opposed to Islamic and Afghan values” as well as those who insult religion or “show the prophet and his companions”. This is the first time that this ministry has tried to regulate Afghan television since the Taliban took power in mid-August.