{"id":44734,"date":"2022-05-22T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/22\/taliban-enforce-face-coverings-afghanistan-female-tv-news-presenters"},"modified":"2022-05-22T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:36:12","slug":"taliban-enforce-face-coverings-for-afghanistans-female-news-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44734","title":{"rendered":"Taliban enforce face coverings for Afghanistan\u2019s female news presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move is part of hardline pivot after militants hinted at more moderate restrictions when taking power last year<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news presenters in the country to cover their faces while on air, as part of a hardline shift that has drawn condemnation from rights activists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/taliban-orders-female-afghan-tv-presenters-to-cover-faces-on-air\">After the order was announced on Thursday<\/a>, only a handful of news outlets complied. However, on Sunday most female presenters were seen with their faces covered after the Taliban\u2019s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice began enforcing the decree.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/22\/taliban-enforce-face-coverings-afghanistan-female-tv-news-presenters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move is part of hardline pivot after militants hinted at more moderate restrictions when taking power last yearAfghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news presenters in the country to cover their faces while &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"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":[46,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734","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\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44735,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734\/revisions\/44735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}