The new laws mark the newest in a series of restrictions positioned on the folks of Afghanistan primarily based on the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia legislation.
"You are urgently informed that from today, shaving beards and playing music in barbershops and public baths are strictly prohibited," the native authority mentioned Sunday in an announcement.
"If any barbershop or public bath is found to have shaved anyone's beard or played music, they will be dealt with according to the Sharia principles and they will not have the right to complain," the assertion added.
While the Taliban have mentioned their rule could be milder than it was throughout their earlier time in authorities, there have been quite a few studies of harsh crackdowns since they seized energy of the nation in August, together with the detention and assault of journalists, the use of whips towards girls collaborating in protests, and the public hanging of alleged criminals.
The group additionally has not allowed Afghan ladies and girls to renew secondary training, regardless of promising that feminine college students could be allowed to check. Afghan boys have already been known as to return to high school.
When final in energy between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban banned girls and ladies from training and work, and severely restricted their rights. Today, girls have been utterly excluded from the nation's new, hardline authorities and in some cases been ordered to depart their workplaces.
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