Taliban nab men for wrong hairstyles, skipping prayer: UN

The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report said on Thursday, 6 months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect.

The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects of everyday life, including public transport, music, shaving and celebrations. Most notably, the ministry issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.

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