Date: 06/06/1404 Local sources in Kabul told Amu that the Taliban's Office for the Promotion of Virtue has warned the lawyers of the 11th district of Kabul to identify women's home hairdressers and take action to close them. According to these sources, the Taliban have warned the lawyers that if they do not cooperate in identifying these hairdressers, they will face punitive measures and have even deprived them of the right to complain. Messages provided to Amu show lawyers encouraging each other to gather information about hairdressers operating in residential areas and report it to Taliban officials. In one of these messages, a virtue officer stressed that the activities of women's hairdressers "are prohibited by order of the Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue" and should be "stopped immediately". In another message, a member of the Ulema Council of Kabul's 11th district described women's hairdressers as a "sinister and disgraceful phenomenon" and called for a severe crackdown on these hairdressers. He also called for the full cooperation of the passage lawyers with the officers of the promotion of virtue, saying: "We seriously announce to the scholars of District 11 to take a serious stance against this phenomenon. We are and are in agreement with the Muhtasib for the Promotion of Virtue in this fight of truth." In 2022, the Taliban closed all women's hairdressers in Kabul and other cities, leaving thousands of women unemployed. In the wake of the ban, many hairdressers have moved their activities to their homes and continued to work in secret. However, last month, sources told Amu that the Taliban had closed dozens of home hairdressers in Kabul and arrested a number of women hairdressers.

The reported directive by the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Kabul compelling local lawyers to identify and report women’s home-based hairdressers extends moral policing into community surveillance and collective enforcement. by threatening punitive measures, denying the right to complain, and mobilizing religious rhetoric through local ulema to justify crackdowns, the Taliban institutionalize denunciation as a governance tool. This approach intensifies the economic erasure of women by criminalizing survival livelihoods and coercing civilians into participation in enforcement.