Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have owned men and their barbers on hairstyles and others for missing prayers in mosques during the sacred month of Ramadan, said a UN report on Thursday, six months after Laws regulating people’s driving entered into force.
THE Ministry of Vice and Virtue The laws published last August covering many aspects of daily life in Afghanistan, including public transport, music, shaving and celebrations. In particular, the ministry has prohibited the voices of women and naked faces in public.
This same month, A senior UN official warned the laws provided a “painful vision” for the future of the country by adding to Employment, education and clothing code restrictions on women and girls. Taliban officials have rejected UN concerns on morality laws.
Thursday’s report, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, said in the first 6 months of the implementation of laws, more than half of the detention under it concerned “men who do not have the length or hairstyle of the compliant beard, or barbers providing non-compliant cut or haircuts.”
The report indicates that the morality police have regularly held arbitrarily “without regular procedure and legal protection”.
During the month of sacred fasting of Ramadan, the attendance of men in the mandated congregation prayers was closely monitored, sometimes leading to the arbitrary detention of those who were not presented, added the report.
The United Nations mission has said that both sexes have been negatively affected, in particular people with small businesses such as private education centers, barbers and hairdressers, tailors, caterers and restaurants, resulting in a reduction or total loss of income and employment possibilities.
The direct and indirect socio-economic effects of the implementation of laws were to worsen the disastrous economic situation of Afghanistan, he said. A World Bank study assessed that the ban on women in education and work could cost more than $ 1.4 billion per year.
But the Taliban chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada, underlined the Primacy of Islamic Law And The role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in the reform of Afghan society and its people.
In a message issued before the Aid al-Fitr religious festival which marks the end of Ramadan, Akhundzada said that it was necessary to “establish a company free from corruption and tests, and prevent future generations from becoming victims of erroneous beliefs, harmful practices and bad morals”.
According to the report, more than 3,300 male inspectors are responsible for informing people of the law and applying it, according to the report.
The ministry has resolved complaints of thousands of people and defended the rights of Afghan women, according to its spokesperson Saif Ur Rahman Khyber.
This is added to “the implementation of divine decrees in the fields of promoting virtue, preventing it from vice, establishing affirmations, prevention of bad actions and the elimination of bad customs”.
The ministry was attached to all Islamic and human rights and proven it in practice, he said Thursday, rejecting attempts to “sabotage or disseminate rumors” on its activities.
