The Taliban says it will gradually implement the law banning the use of images of living beings

Bayan News – The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently announced that the new law banning the use of images of living beings on television networks will be gradually implemented.

Meanwhile, in Takhar province, the Taliban, during a meeting with journalists and local media officials, issued an order for a complete ban on photography and video reporting in the province.

According to local sources, Taliban officials, including a representative from the Taliban’s intelligence department in Takhar, emphasized that visual media should be converted into radio stations.

Saif-ul-Islam Khyber, a spokesperson for the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue, told AFP that efforts to ban the broadcast of images of living beings in the media have already started in some provinces.

On Monday, October 14, he added that the law prohibiting the broadcast of living beings’ images in the media will be implemented “gradually” across Afghanistan.

He further stated that Taliban officials are currently working to convince people that broadcasting such images in the media is a “violation of Islamic law.”

This comes as the ministry’s law also bans discussing controversial or mocking Islamic issues.

The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue had previously prohibited the national TV from broadcasting images of living bodies in some provinces.

Moreover, during their first rule in the 1990s, the Taliban completely banned television, photography, and painting of living beings, imprisoning violators.

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