Afghan women TV presenters cover their faces

Afghan women TV presenters cover their faces

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Tolo News presenter Sonia Niazi covered her face during the broadcast Image source, Getty Images Image, Sonia Niazi said female presenters declined but their employers were put under pressure Women presenters and journalists on Afghan TV stations went on air with their faces covered on Sunday, in line with a Taliban order. Yesterday, some of them had ignored the law and kept their faces visible. One presenter said that women who work in television are reluctant but their employers are under pressure. After taking power last year, the Taliban have been imposing restrictions on women's lives in recent weeks. Wearing hijabs and veils, women presented and reported on news and other programs on all popular channels such as TOLOnews, Ariana Television, Shamshad TV and 1TV. "It's good we're Muslims, we wear the hijab, we hide our hair," TOLOnews host Farida Sial told the BBC, "but it's really difficult for a broadcaster to hide her hair." cover their face for two or three hours in a row and say so." He said he wanted the international community to put pressure on the Taliban to change the law.

She stated, "They aim to eliminate women from social and political life."

Earlier, the Taliban Department of Prohibition of Deputy Forces and Beauty Promotions ordered that all women should wear a face mask in public, or be punished at risk - which has been conveyed to TV presenters since Saturday. After some of the women refused to comply, the Taliban official said he would speak to the authorities and security guards, who face the possibility of punishment. "We have resisted and condemned the wearing of masks," Sonia Niazi, a TOLOnews anchor, told AFP. But she said the station was pressured and told that female broadcasters should be relocated or fired if they did not comply. Khpolwak Sapai, the station's deputy director, wrote on Facebook: "We are deeply saddened today." Female presenters on Afghanistan's 1TV channel Image captions, Women TV presenters fear they will be forced out of the air, says a senior TV official An Afghan woman journalist, who asked not to be named, told the BBC: "Today is another dark day for the women of my country." And the television chief executive said many female presenters feared that the next stage would take them completely off the air. The majority of Muslims around the world do not consider women to be the ones who cover their faces in public as part of a compulsory religion, and the Taliban initially seemed to be taking a more flexible approach after taking power in August last year. But in recent weeks, they have placed many restrictions on the lives of women, including giving them different dates to visit community parks and preventing them from taking long walks without a male caregive