{"id":44798,"date":"2022-05-24T22:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/24\/male-afghan-tv-presenters-mask-up-to-support-female-colleagues-after-taliban-decree"},"modified":"2022-05-24T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:46:14","slug":"male-afghan-tv-presenters-mask-up-to-support-female-colleagues-after-taliban-decree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44798","title":{"rendered":"Male Afghan TV presenters mask up to support female colleagues after Taliban decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#FreeHerFace campaign gathers force as high-profile men rebel against crackdown on face coverings in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Male TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that all women on news channels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/22\/taliban-enforce-face-coverings-afghanistan-female-tv-news-presenters\">must cover their faces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a protest dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/freeherface?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeHerFace<\/a> on social media, men on Tolo News wore masks to mimic the effect of the face veil their female colleagues have been forced to wear after a Taliban crackdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/24\/male-afghan-tv-presenters-mask-up-to-support-female-colleagues-after-taliban-decree\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#FreeHerFace campaign gathers force as high-profile men rebel against crackdown on face coverings in AfghanistanMale TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that all women on ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2600,"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":[46,59,238,54,79,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/44798","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\/2600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44798\/revisions\/44799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}