News Center- The Taliban authorities have intensified their crackdown against dress code violations. According to the local reports, authorities arrested at least 10 women in the Khair Khana and Dasht-e Barchi neighborhoods of Kabul on Sunday for not following the dress code imposed by the Taliban.

The local sources reported that the Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice officials had arrested women and taken them to unknown locations.

In recent days, the Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has initiated a new wave of arrests against girls and women in various areas of Kabul for not following the dress code.

The crackdown is the latest blow to Afghan women and girls, who have already been marginalized by the Taliban's bans on education, employment, and restrictions in access to public spaces.

In May 2022, the Taliban issued a decree and called on Afghan women to show only their eyes in public.