Taliban Using Women as Spies to Identify Those Violating the Law of Promotion of Virtue

According to the report, published on Monday (September 2), women employed by the Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice are tasked with monitoring female citizens on social media and in public places.

A female official in the Women's Department of the Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who was not named in the report, told The Telegraph that these women identify the accounts of female violators on Instagram.

This Taliban official added that the group needs more women to identify women who violate the law on the promotion of virtue.

According to the report, some women have been forcibly assigned to this task, while others are "spying" in exchange for money. Additionally, some female prisoners in Taliban prisons have been released on the condition that they report on female violators.

Gul Nisa Mukhbir, one of the women employed by the Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, stated that she daily identifies women who violate the group's strict laws in clothing stores and crowded places in the city. According to her, after being identified, the female violators are transferred to police stations.

Mukhbir also said, "True freedom is for women to stay at home, raise their children, serve their husbands, and not worry about anything else."

This report comes as the Taliban leader recently approved into law the group's new decree on promoting virtue and preventing vice, a law that even considers a woman's voice to be 'awrah' (a private part that must be concealed).