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Taliban morality police intensifies crackdown on women in Herat city
[KabulNow] According local sources in the western province of Herat...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , the Taliban  ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...’s vice and virtue police have intensified pressures on women to conform the group’s strict hijab dress code. Sources in the Herat city told KabulNow, vice and virtue enforcers have set up checkpoints across the city on to inspect adherence of women and girls to the hijab dress code. Women have warned to adhere to the group’s dress guideline or face arrest. The group’s vice and virtue police have also attacked restaurants for serving women and girls, beating up staff. Related: Herat: 2023-05-09 MoI: '4000 Hectares' of Poppy Fields Destroyed Herat: 2023-05-01 Export of Turkmenistan Gas to Pakistan Via Afghanistan Has Begun: Officials Herat: 2023-04-30 Afghanistan’s Saffron Exports to India, China and UAE Related: Herat city: 2023-04-05 Another blow for Herat women; Taliban bans them from restaurants Herat city: 2023-03-05 Six Daesh Affiliates Killed in Herat City Herat city: 2022-12-25 Key cities in Afghanistan ‘militarized’ as Taliban takes stand against protestors Posted by: trailing wife 2023-05-19 |
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