Women in Afghanistan media must cover their faces, leaving their eyes visible; otherwise, the Taliban will ban women from working in journalism.
At a time when women in Afghanistan are especially vulnerable, there are hardly any women reporters left to cover the issues that affect them most.
This was the latest salvo in a long-running fight over representation of women in Afghan media. Female anchors had already been forced to cover their faces when they went on air since May 2022, when the Taliban issued a decree requiring women to cover their faces in public. And in some parts of Afghanistan, local officials have already been imposing even harsher restrictions, such as banning the broadcast of women’s voices on radio stations and forbidding women from calling in as listeners.
The police chief is not in charge of imposing restrictions on media outlets. Yet his order was implemented immediately, as journalists in the province have confirmed to Zan Times. And the restrictions imposed on media organizations don’t end with banning women’s faces or voices. They also include censorship of content related to women’s issues or any content the Taliban deem is critical of their regime, according to several journalists working inside the country.
“I don’t work on the news desk, and I have not made content critical of the Taliban. But I have been summoned to the Taliban’s intelligence office three times because I have produced content about issues such as urban cleanliness and traffic congestion,” said the journalist, who we are not naming to protect them from retaliation from the Taliban. “They say that I should not produce content that shows the Taliban in a negative light.
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