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Taliban arrest women for "bad hijab"

2024-01-04 14:21:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

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The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan capital for wearing the "bad hijab," authorities said Thursday.

This is the first official confirmation of a crackdown on women who do not follow the dress code imposed by the Taliban since they returned to power in 2021.

Afghan women and girls were already suffering from restrictions on education, employment and access to public spaces.

Spokesman Abdul Ghafar Farooq did not say how many women have been arrested or what bad hijab means.

In May 2022, the Taliban issued a decree calling on women to show only their eyes and recommending that they wear the head-to-toe burqa, similar to restrictions during the previous Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001.

Farooq said the women were arrested three days ago.

The ministry has heard complaints about the lack of proper hijab for women in the capital and provinces for nearly two and a half years, he told The Associated Press.

Ministry officials recommended women and advised them to follow the dress code. Female police officers were sent to arrest the women after they did not follow the advice, he added.

"These are the few women who spread the bad hijab in Islamic society," he said.

"They violated Islamic values ??and rituals and encouraged society and other respected sisters to wear bad hijab," he added.

Police will refer the case to judicial authorities or the women will be released on strict bail, according to Farooq.

"In every province, those who move without a hijab will be arrested," he warned.

The arrests come less than a week after the UN Security Council called for a special envoy to engage with the Taliban, particularly on gender and human rights issues.

But the Taliban criticized the idea, saying the special envoys have "further complicated the situation by imposing external solutions".

Late Wednesday, while expressing support for a special envoy for Afghanistan, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said America remains concerned about the Taliban's "repressive orders against women and girls and unwillingness to promote inclusive governance."

The decisions taken risk irreparable damage to Afghan society and distance the Taliban from normalizing relations with the international community, Miller added./ Rel