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Taliban bans all images of living things in Afghanistan

Mark Frauenfelder
Oct 14, 2024
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Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban fighter (Roshan Salih / Shutterstock.com)
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Afghanistan's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) announced it was forbidding images of any living thing, as reported in The Telegraph.

Saiful Islam Khyber of the PVPV said, "The law applies to all of Afghanistan … and it will be implemented gradually." …

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