Women in Afghanistan are no longer allowed to raise their voices in front of others, the Taliban announces.
The announcement follows an earlier decree stating that a woman is not allowed to raise her voice or show her face in public. There is also a ban on reading aloud from the Koran.
It is forbidden for an adult woman to recite Koran verses or make public readings in front of another adult woman. Takbir (shouting "Allahu akbar", God is great) is also not permitted, said Taliban government's morality minister Khalid Hanafi during an appearance in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Singing is completely excluded, the minister emphasized further.
The Taliban movement regained power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, when the last international forces left the country. Since then, the situation for the country's women has changed drastically, with strict morality decrees, as well as bans on taking certain jobs and receiving education higher than middle school level.
