{"id":65968,"date":"2024-08-01T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-taliban-repression-women-beauticians-secret-salons-hair-makeup"},"modified":"2024-08-01T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:00:33","slug":"they-can-stone-us-and-flog-us-i-will-keep-using-makeup-why-women-risk-everything-in-afghanistans-secret-salons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65968","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They can stone us and flog us \u2013 I will keep using makeup\u2019: why women risk everything in Afghanistan\u2019s secret salons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After they were banned in 2023, beauty parlours that once provided a safe space for Afghan women were forced underground<\/p>\n<p>It is 9am in a suburb of Kabul when two women in powder-pink burqas ring the doorbell of a drab building. The exterior is a silent reminder of the gloomy atmosphere that prevails in the capital. \u201cCan you let us in?\u201d they whisper.<\/p>\n<p>A woman called Sonia* opens the door. Before the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, this 56-year-old hairstylist and beauty salon owner never imagined that one day she would have to work in secret.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-taliban-repression-women-beauticians-secret-salons-hair-makeup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After they were banned in 2023, beauty parlours that once provided a safe space for Afghan women were forced undergroundIt is 9am in a suburb of Kabul when two women in powder-pink burqas ring the doorbell of a drab building. The exterior is a silent r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4359,"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":[46,59,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/65968","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\/4359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65968\/revisions\/65969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}