{"id":44255,"date":"2022-05-07T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/taliban-order-all-afghan-women-to-wear-burqa"},"modified":"2022-05-08T03:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T18:36:51","slug":"taliban-order-all-afghan-women-to-wear-burqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44255","title":{"rendered":"Taliban order all Afghan women to cover their faces in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decree forces male relatives to police law by making them liable to fines or prison for breaches <\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have ordered all women to cover their faces in public in Afghanistan, the latest sweeping restriction by a government that has taken away women\u2019s right to travel long distances alone, work outside healthcare or education, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/23\/girls-in-afghanistan-school-taliban\" title=\"\">receive a secondary education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a cruel twist, the decree makes women\u2019s relatives and employers the enforcers. If their faces are seen in public, their male \u201cguardian\u201d will be fined, then jailed. If the woman who goes out uncovered or her relative work for the government, they must be fired.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/taliban-order-all-afghan-women-to-wear-burqa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decree forces male relatives to police law by making them liable to fines or prison for breaches The Taliban have ordered all women to cover their faces in public in Afghanistan, the latest sweeping restriction by a government that has taken away women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions\/44261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}