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DEC12-07312024-11
Article 18 of PVPV Law imposes religious mandates on trade and farming, restricting livelihoods and expression through sectarian economic rules.
DEC12-07312024-15
Article 22 of PVPV Law criminalizes a wide array of behaviors - from LGBTQ+ identity and women's public speech to cultural celebrations - codifying...
DEC12-07312024-2
Taliban codifies nationwide morality law - the Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - granting sweeping powers to religious police...
DEC12-07312024-20
Article 28 of PVPV Law mandates community-wide enforcement of Taliban-defined morality through schools and religious leaders.
DEC12-10262024
Taliban confirms ban on singing and bans women from reciting Quran aloud even in presence of other women under new verbal religious restriction, under...
DEC2-01052025
Taliban barred women producers from participating in a handicrafts and trade exhibition in Kandahar, allowing male family members to represent them.
DEC2-05292024
The Taliban halted the opening ceremony of a café and library for women in Kabul.
DEC2-06262023
The closure of women’s beauty salons across the country.
DEC4-01202024
Official order re civil service appointments & transfers at Takhar University, used to expel non-Pashtun employees.
DEC4-05312023
Taliban issues directive banning Persian terms and mandating ideological conformity in university research and teaching.
DEC4-10262024
Taliban prohibit adult women to hear the voices of other adult women.
DEC5-01302024
Prohibition of Western-style haircuts and beard shaving for men.
DEC6-02032025
Taliban morality police raided a wedding in Badakhshan over music, arresting the bride and groom.
DEC6-05212023
Taliban and religious scholars in Jabal Saraj, Parwan have set a limit for the dowry of girls, mandating enforcement by security and religious authorities.
DEC6-06092023
Taliban orders the registration of young girls and widows for forced marriage to Taliban members.
DEC7-01072025-A
Taliban directive restricting photography for photographers in Daikundi province.
DEC7-01162025
Ban on broadcasting women's voices on radio in Badghis province.
DEC7-01272025
A Taliban court sentenced filmmaker Rahim Saeedi to three years in prison for alleged “propaganda,” following his arrest by intelligence forces in Kabul.
DEC7-03162025
New Report that, in 2024, the Taliban suspended the operations of 22 media outlets and arrested 50 journalists.
DEC7-03182025
Taliban ban women’s voices on broadcast media and mandated reverential title ('Amir al Mu'minin or Commander of the Faithful) for Taliban Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada...