They ban the presence of women in Afghan television fiction

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The Taliban have ordered the cancellation of Afghan telefims and soap operas starring female actresses. The Afghan regulation carries with it a list of eight religious guidelines, issued to local media on Sunday, November 21. On Monday, November 22, Anisa Shaheed, one of Afghanistan's most prominent journalists, confirmed the directive through her Twitter account.

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The reporter informs in the tweet: "New restrictions by the Taliban on the media on how to wear the hijab of women journalists, women's clothing and women's work, how to broadcast movies and TV series, programs of entertainment and how to wear men's clothing". This was the first directive from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a body created by the Taliban in September, shortly after the Islamist militant group regained power in the country.

The rule, which prohibits women from appearing in film and television, is a tremendous blow to the group, which already had the media banned by the Taliban when they first took power, from 1996 to 2001. Women in the performing arts they have always faced stigma in the country, but had made significant progress in recent years.

Content showing body parts, both female and male (for example, a bare torso), and comedy shows humiliating people have also been banned. Hakif Mohajir, a spokesman for the ministry, told AFP that "these are not rules, but religious guidelines." For her part, Leena Alam, one of Afghanistan's best-known actresses, explained the unthinkability of the situation: "Who would know better than me how dangerous it is to be an actress with the Taliban in power? You can't inflict one more drop on me afraid of the one I already have". So said Alam, who currently resides in California, in a speech for the Los Angeles Writers Center.

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The entertainment faucet in Afghanistan has not been completely closed, since fictional content is not yet prohibited, at the same time that the Internet serves and will continue to serve as a channel for the free consumption of series. However, as the Afghan economy collapses, the country's vibrant media ecosystem falters. At the moment, the production of most television channels (there were 50 before August) and newspapers (there were 20) has been paralyzed since the rise of the Taliban. Freedom of the press also fell with the arrival of the group.

In a country where literacy is still very high (45% for men and 70% for women), television had a very important weight in the country's media diet. Mozhdah Jamalzadah, known as "Afghanistan's Oprah" for her talk show, "The Mozhdah Show," says that for the past two decades television had played a key role in "teaching people to accept women in public sphere", making the move a huge step backwards in the progress made since 2001.

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