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From the Associated Press: ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban run-media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws, an official confirmed Tuesday.
In August, the country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws regulating aspects of everyday life like public transportation, shaving, the media and celebrations reflecting authorities’ interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.
Article 17 bans the publication of images of living beings, sparking concerns about the consequences for Afghan media and press freedom.
A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry, Saif ul Islam Khyber, said government media in the provinces of Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar have been advised not to air or show images of anything with a soul — meaning people and animals.
Hujjatullah Mujadidi, the director of the Afghan Independent Journalists Union, said, “Last night, independent local media (in some provinces) also stopped running these videos and images and are instead broadcasting nature videos.”
The report explains that none of the other Muslim-majority countries impose such strict restrictions.
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s, they banned most television, radio and newspapers.
Taliban-run media stops showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces https://t.co/KQxUZVsDNW
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2024
The Taliban are the ultimate life sucking vampiric parasites pic.twitter.com/qculmRyicd
— MummyisTired (@MummyisT) October 14, 2024
The Taliban has banned the publishing photos and videos of all living things.
P.S: We are not breaking Taliban law by posting this photo of Taliban leaders because they are brain dead. pic.twitter.com/c3M3JKVClh
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 15, 2024
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