{"id":271703,"date":"2026-06-08T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=271703"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:41:57","slug":"women-arrested-in-afghanistan-for-not-wearing-body-covering-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/271703\/","title":{"rendered":"Women arrested in Afghanistan for not wearing body-covering clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Residents in the western Afghan city of Herat told the AFP news agency they had witnessed several women detained by the Taliban government’s morality police, in a crackdown over clothing, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Sunday it was “concerned over multiple arrests and detentions of women in Herat Afghanistan for alleged non-compliance with dress requirements.”<\/p>\n

Taliban authorities have gradually tightened restrictions on women since returning to power in August 2021.<\/p>\n

Women nationwide must be completely covered when they leave home, with many wearing a flowing abaya robe along with a Muslim headscarf and a face covering.<\/p>\n

In Herat, residents witnessed women being detained on Saturday for not wearing the body-cloaking chador or burqa.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Residents in the western Afghan city of Herat told the AFP news agency they had witnessed several women detained by the Taliban government’s morality police, in a crackdown over clothing, Euronews writes. The UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Sunday it was “concerned over multiple arrests and detentions of women in Herat Afghanistan for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271712,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271703\/revisions\/271712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}