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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO Hadia (Centre), a fourth-grade primary school student leaves after attending a class held in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

KABUL, Reuters – A set of restrictions has been imposed by the Taliban government on Afghan media. These include banning TV dramas featuring women actors and requiring female news reporters to don “Islamic Hijab.”

A Taliban spokesperson said Tuesday that the Ministry of Vice and Virtue of Afghanistan had issued nine rules. The main focus of these rules was to ban any media that violates Islamic or Afghan values.

Some edicts specifically targeted women and are likely to be criticized by the international community.

These dramas and programmes that women act in should not air,” said the guidelines. They added that female journalists should be wearing an “Islamic Hijab”, but did not define what it meant.

Although most Afghan women wear headscarves when they go out, statements by the Taliban that women should wear an “Islamic hijab,” have in the past concerned women’s rights activists. They claim the term is too vague and can be taken conservatively.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international rights organization, criticized the regulations. It stated that media freedom had been reducing in this country.

Patricia Gossman is associate Asia director for HRW. She stated that there was no space left for dissident voices and increased restrictions on women’s access to the media and arts. This statement came from Gossman.

Although Taliban officials tried to assure the women of Afghanistan that their rights would be respected since taking over on August 15, international women advocates have been skeptical.

The Taliban had imposed strict restrictions on the freedom of women to leave their homes, except when they were accompanied or receiving education.

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