Taliban begins enforcing rule banning 'images of living beings' in Afghan media

The Taliban is reportedly enforcing a prohibition against definite media outlets airing "images of surviving beings" in Afghanistan.

An Afghan official confirmed the quality to the Associated Press connected Tuesday. The militant group, done its Vice and Virtue Ministry, is presently enforcing the regularisation successful definite provinces, and it is unclear erstwhile oregon if it volition use to each media outlets crossed the country, including overseas media.

The caller regularisation reflects laws announced by the Vice and Virtue Ministry successful August, which besides banned women's voices and bare faces. The authorities marked the archetypal declaration of specified rules successful Afghanistan since the Taliban took implicit aft the U.S. withdrawal.

Article 17 of the legislation, which was approved by ultimate person Hibatullah Akhundzada, bans the work of immoderate images depicting surviving beings.

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FILE - TV anchor Nesar Nabil is seen connected workplace monitors wearing a look disguise to protestation the Taliban's caller bid that pistillate presenters screen their faces, arsenic helium reads the quality connected TOLOnews, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Vice and Virtue Ministry spokesperson Saif ul Islam Khyber confirmed that media successful the Afghan provinces of Maidan Wardak, Kandahar and Takhar person been advised not to amusement images of thing with a soul.

Aghan Independent Journalists Union manager Hujjatullah Mujadidi reported that authorities media was straight told not to aerial specified images by the ministry. It was aboriginal extended to each media successful the provinces.

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FILE - TV anchor Nesar Nabil wears a look disguise to protestation the Taliban's caller bid that pistillate presenters screen their faces, arsenic helium reads the quality connected TOLOnews, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

"Last night, autarkic section media (in immoderate provinces) besides stopped moving these videos and images and are alternatively broadcasting quality videos," Mujadidi said.

Afghanistan is the lone Muslim-majority state enforcing this broadcasting rule. The extremity of the authorities announced by the Vice and Virtue Ministry caused planetary concern, particularly the laws pertaining to women.

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A Taliban combatant stands defender arsenic women hold to person nutrient rations distributed by a humanitarian assistance radical successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Vice and Virtue Ministry deemed that women's voices were considered excessively "intimate" and banned women from singing oregon speechmaking aloud successful public. The authorities besides requires women to deterioration veils successful public.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.