{"id":66523,"date":"2024-09-01T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/01\/afghan-women-sing-in-defiance-of-taliban-laws-silencing-their-voices"},"modified":"2024-09-01T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:52:54","slug":"afghan-women-sing-in-defiance-of-taliban-laws-silencing-their-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66523","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singing<\/p>\n<p>Afghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban\u2019s laws banning women\u2019s voices in public.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month the Taliban published new restrictions aimed, it said, at combating vice and promoting virtue. The 35-article document, which includes a raft of draconian laws, deems women\u2019s voices to be potential instruments of vice and stipulates that women must not sing or read aloud in public, nor let their voices carry beyond the walls of their homes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/01\/afghan-women-sing-in-defiance-of-taliban-laws-silencing-their-voices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singingAfghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban\u2019s laws banning w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3911,"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":[46,53,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","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\/66523","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\/3911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66524,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66523\/revisions\/66524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}