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Afghan women flood social media with songs of defiance against Taliban’s new morality law – Firstpost
Several Afghan women have now started an online protest by uploading videos of themselves singing and protesting against the Taliban’s latest laws. read more Days after the Taliban regime in Afghanistan issued a new set of vices and virtues laws…
UN: Taliban criminalize sight and sound of women
On Sunday, the United Nations condemned new laws by the Afghan Ministry of Vice and Virtue that ban the public display of women’s faces and bodies, saying: “even the sound of a female voice“ outside the house constitutes a “moral…
Human Rights Watch: Arrest of Kurds for singing songs at weddings is abuse of power
In a statement released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Turkey for arresting dozens of Kurds at wedding celebrations because they sang or danced to political folk songs, calling this an abuse of power and a violation of freedom…
Turkish prison bans Kurdish language when making phone calls to relatives
Şırnak Prison A prison in Turkey’s Şırnak province has imposed a ban on the use of the Kurdish language in telephone conversations between inmates and their families, news website TR724 reported on Monday. According to Fadıl Tay, a lawyer with…
