The Taliban has introduced a brand new penal code which allows husbands to abuse their wives and youngsters, so long as it doesn’t break bones or cause ‘open wounds’.
The barbaric code, signed into law by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, would still prosecute those that cause visible fractures or injuries.
However the abuser would only be convicted if the lady can prove abuse in court – showing her wounds to the judge, while remaining fully covered.
If the person is convicted, he would only face a maximum of a 15-day sentence in prison.
The law has no mention of protecting children from assault and abuse, each physical, mental and sexual.
The law also mentions that if a lady goes to her father’s or one other member of the family’s house without her husband’s permission and doesn’t return home, they shall be thrown in prison for 3 months.
‘The totality of those provisions stands in clear contradiction to the principle of equality, the prohibition of gender discrimination, the prohibition of violence against women, and the best to human dignity, and seriously increases the chance of intensifying and institutionalising violence against women,’ Rawadari, a human rights organisation, said.
Since retaking power over Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has cracked down on human rights, especially harming women.
In 2024, the federal government passed a law banning women from reading and singing in public.
The laws were a part of a strict latest set of ‘vice and virtue laws’, which was approved by Supreme Leader Akhundzada.
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They cover features of on a regular basis life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.
Article 13 specifically pertains to women, making it mandatory for females to veil their bodies in any respect times in public while emphasising that a face covering is important to avoid temptation in addition to tempting others. It also states that clothing shouldn’t be thin, tight or short.
As well as, women at the moment are forbidden from singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public, for the reason that female voice is taken into account too intimate.
Also they are banned from men they aren’t related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.
Women are also told to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim men and women to avoid being corrupted.
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