Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices in new edict

A woman’s voice is considered awrah, meaning that which must be covered, and shouldn’t be heard in public, even by other women, the Taliban minister of vice and virtue says

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from allowing their voices to be heard by other women, adding yet another restriction to their string of radical measures against women.

Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban’s minister of vice and virtue, said in an audio statement last week that women should refrain from reciting the Quran — the holy book of Islam — aloud in the presence of other women, according to Amu TV, a U.S.-based network established by Afghan journalists in exile after the fall of Afghanistan’s Western-backed government.