Once again into Afghanistan the Ministry of the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue intervenes. Once again, it is women who are affected. From August 2, hairdressers and beauty salons will have to close according to the new edict issued by the Taliban.
It is difficult to remember what right Afghan women have left. Maybe just to breathe. They can’t study, they can’t move on their own, they can’t go to parks or gyms.
There are no reasons or details in the communication of the ministry spokesman, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, who limited himself to confirming the contents of a letter circulating on social networks. And it’s not that the news wasn’t expected. The Taliban have systematically deprived of women’s rights since they came back to power in August two years ago with the abandonment of the country by Westerners.
Few were brave enough to go to the hairdresser’s, in shops whose windows, like those of many others, have been darkened, the mannequins covered, women, in all their forms, erased.
In this way some of the few businesses run by women are closed, giving a further blow to the rights and the possibility of autonomy for women. According to a report by Amnesty International and the commission international jurists these continued restrictions should be investigated as crimes against humanity caused by gender-based persecution.
Source: Vanity Fair
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