Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty salons across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to further squeeze women out of public life.
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public.
Women have also mostly been barred from working for the United Nations or NGOs, and thousands have been sacked from government jobs or are being paid to stay at home.
Mohammad Sadeq Akif Muhajir, spokesman for the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, would not say why the new order had been given.
“Once they are closed then we will share the reason with the media,” he told AFP.
Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said last month women in Afghanistan were being saved from “traditional oppressions” by the adoption of Islamic governance and their status as “free and dignified human beings” restored.
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