Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country’s biggest media outlet said Thursday.
The Taliban will require Afghan women who present on television to wear face coverings, another regressive step for women's rights since the group's takeover last August.
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued an official order that female journalists must cover their faces on television. The move comes days after authorities ordered women to cover their faces in public.
Women TV presenters in Afghanistan have been ordered to cover their faces on screen. The new diktat is the latest salvo is what is beginning to look like a systematic campaign of repression against women, despite Taliban assurances to the contrary.
It's a somber Thursday morning at TOLOnews, Afghanistan's leading independent news channel. The staff was told the day before that the Taliban have ordered female presenters to cover their faces on air.
One prominent presenter posted a video of herself putting on a mask with a caption: “a woman being erased, on orders from the Virtue and Vice Ministry.”
Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading TV channels went on air Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their
Female TV presenters in Afghanistan appeared on-air without face coverings, explicitly defying a recent Taliban order requiring them to conceal themselves in compliance with Islamic rule.
Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels went on air Sunday with their faces covered, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television.
The Taliban made face veils mandatory for all Afghan women appearing in public, including those on television. This edict was ignored by presenters on Saturday, but they relented on Sunday.
Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels went on air Sunday with their faces covered, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television.
Since seizing power nine months ago, male-only interim Taliban government has subjected women and girls to a series of onerous curbs, drawing international criticism
ISLAMABAD -- Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists.
