The Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice banned women from Band-e-Amir National Park this weekend.
The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice banned women from Band-e-Amir National Park this weekend – one of Afghanistan’s largest and most beautiful parks – on the grounds that some women had worn hijab inappropriately and that “sightseeing is not a must for women.”
Women have regularly defied these edicts with street protests, particularly in the capital of Kabul but have few resources to use against the uncontested rulers of the country. Last week, shortly before the national park ban, a spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry lamented publicly that seeing women “is very bad” and that women faced the threat of declining in “value” if anyone sees their face.
“They visit all these places and watch people. They also speak with them and educate them. We monitor them and people also cooperate with and inform us,” he said.
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