What are some laws imposed by the Taliban?

Answer 1

• Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative and without wearing a Burqa (also Burkha, Burka or Burqua).
• Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman's footsteps lest it excite him.
• Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice.
• All ground and first floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women being visible from the street.
• The photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home.
• The modification of any place names that included the word "women." For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".
• Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses.
• Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.

Answer 2

- Women aren't allowed to study

- Women aren't allowed to work much

- Women aren't allowed to leave the house without a male member of the family

- Women never grow up and become independent. A woman's legal guardian is her father. When she gets married, her legal guardian is the husband. She has no rights of an adult.

- It's impossible for a male to rape his wife, if they're married the man is allowed to have sex with her whenever he wants no matter what

- It's acceptable to hit women if they misbehave

The only good thing they had was the ban on growing of opium. However they started farming it once America invaded.