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Courtesy of the Biden-Harris administration, the Taliban-led Afghan government has officially published new laws  banning women’s voices and bare faces in public, according to reports.  The rules are based in a 2022 decree by the country’s spiritual leader and could potentially increase enforcement of the so-called “vice and virtue” morality laws.

The Taliban returned to power in the capital of Kabul in August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan that killed more US servicemen than had been killed there in the previous three years.

Since then, the strict Islamist group has enacted a slew of restrictions on women and girls, including banning female passengers from boarding flights without a male chaperone. The latest laws ban women from speaking and singing in public, bar music in public places, and prevent men from shaving their beards. The Taliban’s actions have been considered a reversal of its previous pledge to maintain increased freedoms gained over the past two decades.