The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned media outlets from publishing images of living beings, adding that journalists in several provinces had already been warned of the gradual implementation of the measure.
"The law applies throughout Afghanistan (...) and will be implemented gradually," Saiful Islam Khyber, spokesman for the Ministry of Promotion and Prevention of Virtue, told French news agency AFP today, arguing that images of living beings are contrary to Islamic law.
Over the summer, authorities enacted a 35-article law to "promote virtue and prevent vice" among the population, in accordance with the 'sharia' (Islamic law), imposed in the country since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The text contains several measures targeting the media, including a ban on the publication of images of living beings, "content hostile to 'sharia' and religion" or that "humiliates Muslims".
However, several aspects of this text have not yet been rigorously enforced, and Taliban authorities continue to regularly post photographs of people on social media.
Images of living beings were banned throughout the country when it was ruled by the Taliban between 1996 and 2001.
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