The Taliban have reportedly placed a ban on certain media outlets that broadcast “creature footage” in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials confirmed the news to The Associated Press on Tuesday. The extremist group is currently enforcing the rule in certain states through the Ministry of Vice, but it is unclear when or if the rule will apply to all media outlets nationwide, including foreign media. is.
The new rules reflect a law announced by the Ministry of Vice-Virtue in August, which also prohibits it. A woman's voice and face. The bill was the first to declare such rules in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power after the U.S. withdrawal.
Article 17 of the law, approved by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, prohibits the publication of any images depicting living creatures.
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FILE – TV anchor Nesar Nabil reads out news from TOLOnews wearing a face mask in protest of the Taliban's new order for female hosts to cover their faces in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. displayed on the studio monitor. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Norouzi, File)
Deputy Ministry of Virtue Spokesperson Saif-ul-Islam Khyber confirmed that media outlets in Afghanistan's Maidan Wardak, Kandahar and Takhar provinces have been advised not to publish images of objects with souls. Ta.
Hujatullah Mujadidi, secretary general of the Aghan Independent Journalists Union, reported that state media received direct instructions from the ministry not to broadcast such footage. It was then expanded to all media outlets in the state.
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FILE – TV anchor Nesar Nesar wears a face mask to protest the Taliban's new order for female presenters to cover their faces while reading the news on TOLOnews on Sunday, May 22, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Nabil. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Norouzi, File)
“Last night, independent local media (in some states) also stopped publishing these videos and images and are broadcasting nature videos instead,” Mujadidi said.
Afghanistan is the only Muslim-majority country to enforce this broadcasting regulation. The radical nature of the law announced by the Ministry of Vice-Virtue has raised international concerns, especially regarding the law regarding women.
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Taliban fighters stand guard as women wait to receive food distributed by humanitarian aid organizations in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Norouzi, File)
The Ministry of Vice-Virtue deems women's voices to be “too intimate” and bans them from singing or reciting in public. The law also requires women to wear veils in public.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
