Women were also banned from most public places, including bathhouses, gyms and parks.
All beauty salons in Afghanistan must be closed for a month. This order was issued by the Taliban government, continuing the policy of restricting women’s access to public places. This was reported on Tuesday, July 4, by Reuters, citing the Taliban Virtue Propaganda Ministry.
“The deadline for closing beauty salons for women is one month,” Mohammad Sadiq Akif, a spokesman for the ministry, said.
Beauty salons popped up in Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan months after the Taliban were removed from power in late 2001.
Many worked after the return of the Islamists to power two years ago, albeit under closed signs.
Last year, the Taliban closed most of the girls’ high schools and banned women from universities and from working for non-governmental organizations that helped Afghans. Women were banned from most public places, including bathhouses, gyms and parks.
Foreign governments and UN officials have repeatedly denounced increased restrictions on Islamist women’s rights and have said such restrictions hinder any possible progress in international recognition of the Taliban.
Recall that in recent months there have been several cases of mass poisoning of girls in schools in different parts of the country. So, in June, at least 40 schoolgirls were poisoned by water in the west of the country. A few days earlier, it was reported that about 60 Afghan girls were hospitalized after being poisoned at a school in northern Afghanistan.
Before that, it was reported that cases of mass poisoning of schoolgirls, which began to be recorded in November last year, are being investigated in a number of Iranian provinces.
