{"id":13194,"date":"2025-08-30T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:12:25","slug":"new-taliban-restrictions-criticism-of-leader-and-love-poetry-becomes-a-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/new-taliban-restrictions-criticism-of-leader-and-love-poetry-becomes-a-red-line\/","title":{"rendered":"New Taliban Restrictions; Criticism of Leader and Love Poetry Becomes a Red Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13197\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jarida-talibbds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>New Taliban Restrictions; Criticism of Leader and Love Poetry Becomes a Red Line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban Ministry of Justice has announced that Haibatullah Akhundzada, the group\u2019s leader, has signed the \u201cLaw on the Regulation of Poetry\u201d in two chapters and 13 articles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to this law, poets are prohibited from composing love poems, praising their beloved, and inviting boys and girls to friendship, and will face punishment if they violate it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban have emphasized that poems must be composed within the framework of \u201cprinciples of Islamic ethics, religious politics, self-purification, strengthening Islamic belief, and unity of the nation\u201d and be free from \u201cunlawful desires and unnecessary emotions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Poets have also been required to refrain from criticizing the orders and decisions of the Taliban leader and distance themselves from schools of thought such as feminism, democracy, communism, and nationalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to this law, poetry gatherings can only be held in the presence of representatives of the Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture, and poems can be published after being registered and evaluated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>To implement this law, a committee consisting of representatives from the Office of the Publicity Secretary, the Ulema Council, and the Ministry of Culture has been appointed, which will have the authority to \u201cclear\u201d poems before publication.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This new restriction comes at a time when a large number of Afghan poets and writers have been forced to leave the country in recent years due to pressure and threats from the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban had previously banned the writing of romantic poetry, but with the passage of this law, this ban has become legal.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Taliban Restrictions; Criticism of Leader and Love Poetry Becomes a Red Line. The Taliban Ministry of Justice has announced that Haibatullah Akhundzada, the group\u2019s leader, has signed the \u201cLaw on the Regulation of Poetry\u201d in two chapters and 13 articles. According to this law, poets are prohibited from composing love poems, praising their beloved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13200,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions\/13200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}