The Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has called on Afghan television stations to no longer broadcast series showing women, as part of new "
religious guidelines
" broadcast on Sunday.
"
Televisions must avoid showing soap operas and series in which women have played rose water
," said a document from the ministry to the attention of the media.
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He also asks them to ensure that women journalists wear "
the Islamic veil
" on screen, without specifying that it is a simple headscarf, already usually worn on Afghan televisions, or a more veil. covering.
"
These are not rules, but 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 which insult religion or "
show the prophet and his companions
".
This is the first time that this ministry has attempted to regulate Afghan television since the Taliban took power in mid-August.
During their first reign, from 1996 to 2001, the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, responsible for ensuring the daily respect of the "
Islamic values
" of the population, was feared for its fundamentalism and the punishments that he was training.
The Taliban had banned television, movies and all forms of entertainment deemed immoral.
People caught watching television were punished and their equipment destroyed, being in possession of a VCR was punishable by public flogging.
For a while, it was even possible to see televisions hanging from streetlights.
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