The Taliban Ministry of MoralityAfghanistan announced that it will be applied a law that prohibits the media from publishing images of all living things. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saiful Islam Khyber, told AFP: “The law applies to all of Afghanistan… and will be applied gradually,” he says, claiming that the images of living beings are against Islamic law.
The ban imposed by Taliban ministry it is part of astrict interpretation of Islamic lawwhich harks back to the iconoclastic tradition present in some currents of Islam. According to this vision, the representation of living beings, especially humans and animals, could encourage forms of idolatry or image worshipwhich are considered contrary to the principles of religion. This decision aims to enforce even tighter control over media content in Afghanistan, further limiting freedom of expression and reducing the scope of independent media.