Afghanistan: Womens Sings In Social Media as a Protests Against the Taliban Veto to Their Voice

Afghan Womens Completly Cover with Veil, Aug 2024 Photo: @MyStarLisa

August 29, 2024 Hour: 1:31 pm

Dozens of Afghan women posted on social media this Thursday several videos in which they are seen singing, in protest at the latest restriction imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, which banned the public sound of the female voice.

“Our voice is not Aurat (private) and tempting, your eyes make temptations” or “my face is not temptation, your eyes make temptations”, are some of the proclamations that sings a dozen women -some of them with their faces covered in one of the videos that circulated on social networks.

The women uttered these phrases while holding posters with the crossed-out face of the supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, which they ended up splitting in half.

Videos feature women ranging from solo to other groups of Afghan women, claiming their right to speak or show their faces in public.

“The Taliban have blocked my voice, my face, my gaze and my presence. Come and be my voice for the last time and say: “Women, life and freedom,” is heard in another passage.

In addition to condemning the public sound of women’s voices as a crime against modesty, the de facto Taliban government in Afghanistan last week ratified a law that made it mandatory for Afghan women to wear veils.

The law, driven by the all-powerful Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, states that women must cover their faces and bodies to avoid “causing temptation,” and to avoid the sound in public or the loud voice of women, Including singing, reciting, or speaking in front of microphones.