{"id":13201,"date":"2025-08-30T22:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:13:28","slug":"taliban-female-hairdressers-will-be-arrested-if-they-continue-to-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-female-hairdressers-will-be-arrested-if-they-continue-to-operate\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban: Female hairdressers will be arrested if they continue to operate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13195\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/araish-talibbcd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban: Female hairdressers will be arrested if they continue to operate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Guardian newspaper reported that the Taliban have issued a new order warning female hairdressers to stop operating clandestine beauty salons within a month, otherwise they will face arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This measure comes after the Taliban officially closed all beauty salons in August 2023; A decision that led to the closure of 12,000 businesses and the loss of more than 50,000 women\u2019s jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban have reportedly ordered lawyers to identify clandestine hair salons and report their owners to the Amr-e-Maruf administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Many women, however, see these salons as their only source of income and a way for their families to survive. Fereshta, a 38-year-old mother of three, told the Guardian that she has been forced to continue working secretly despite the bans because her husband is ill and she is the sole breadwinner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women have been excluded from most formal jobs and girls have been barred from continuing their secondary and university education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Human rights groups have called the restrictions \u201cgender apartheid\u201d and warned that the Taliban are effectively excluding women from public life.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban: Female hairdressers will be arrested if they continue to operate. The Guardian newspaper reported that the Taliban have issued a new order warning female hairdressers to stop operating clandestine beauty salons within a month, otherwise they will face arrest. This measure comes after the Taliban officially closed all beauty salons in August 2023; A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201","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=13201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13202,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions\/13202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}