Earlier this month, Afghanistan’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a decree for women to cover up fully in public from head to toe as well as ordering female journalists to cover their faces on air.
These Taliban restrictions encouraged male Tv presenters to cover their faces too in solidarity with their female news anchors and launched the #FreeHerFace campaign on Twitter.
This new hashtag gained the attention of men, women, and Afghans from all over the world, to post masked-up pictures of them in support of Afghan women’s freedom.
The Human Rights Watch expressed on Monday that ”It’s time for foreign governments to do much more to raise their concerns. Diplomats meeting with the Taliban should signal support for the #FreeHerFace campaign and speak out publicly against the Taliban’s intensifying violations of the rights of women and girls”.
Since they took control of the country last summer, the Taliban leaders gave several orders to impede women’s freedom.
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