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Women in Afghanistan on Sunday (May 8th) voiced their opposition after the Taliban issued a decree ordering them to be fully covered in public, including their faces.
Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada approved the order on Saturday (May 7th) in a move that threatens to push freedoms toward the harsh rule imposed by Islamists when they previously held power between 1996-2001.
The cover-up decision runs counter to promises of softer behavior to the international community after the Taliban took power in August last year.
“I am being imprisoned. “I can not live in freedom and my whole social life is being controlled by the Taliban,” Tahmina Taham, a former government employee who lost her job after the Taliban returned to power last year, told AFP.
“Forget being a woman, I have been deprived of my freedoms as a human being,” she said.
The Akhundzada decree also specified that women working in government affairs who do not comply with the order “should be fired” and that employees, women and girls whom they do not respect, will also be suspended from work.
The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan condemned the issuance of the decree and said it could “further strain the engagement” between the Islamists and the international community.
There were no immediate signs of implementation of Akhundzada’s order in Kabul on Sunday. Many women were seen on the streets without covering their faces, reports AFP.
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