As early as September, the Taliban re-established a ministry for spreading virtue and preventing vice, whose officials are overseeing that the country’s people follow a strict form of Islamic Sharia law. Late last year, the regime called on television to stop broadcasting women’s series and to ensure that journalists appearing on screen are veiled.
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The Islamist movement has also announced that Afghans will not be able to travel further than 72 kilometers on their own. On longer trips, they must be accompanied by a male relative. In February this year, the Taliban ordered women working in ministries to wear a head covering (hijab) and work separately from men.
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Taliban vows
Although the Taliban argued after coming to power last year that its new regime would be more moderate than the previous one, overthrown in 2001, girls and women cannot go to school in many parts of the country.
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Under the previous government, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban demanded that women cover themselves completely in burqas and leave their homes with only men. They did not have the right to study or work. They were threatened with severe penalties for breaking the rules. Executions and flogging were common.
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