{"id":73743,"date":"2025-08-30T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/30\/taliban-crackdown-afghanistan-secret-beauty-salons-women-gender-apartheid"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:00:01","slug":"taliban-launch-crackdown-on-afghanistans-secret-beauty-salons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73743","title":{"rendered":"Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan\u2019s secret beauty salons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clandestine businesses \u2013 a financial lifeline for many women \u2013 have been given a month to cease operations<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them that they have one month to stop or face arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, all beauty salons were closed by the Taliban in August 2023, shuttering 12,000 businesses with the loss of more than 50,000 female beautician jobs. Yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-taliban-repression-women-beauticians-secret-salons-hair-makeup#:~:text=The%20Taliban%20announced%20the%20closure,makeup%20%E2%80%93%20were%20violating%20Islamic%20law.\">clandestine salons have continued to operate<\/a> within communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/30\/taliban-crackdown-afghanistan-secret-beauty-salons-women-gender-apartheid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clandestine businesses \u2013 a financial lifeline for many women \u2013 have been given a month to cease operationsThe Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4919,"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":[46,1481,646,59,53,78,79,61,44,281,3282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-beauty","category-gender","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-life-and-style","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-women-under-the-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\/73743","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\/4919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73743\/revisions\/73747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}