Taliban authorities arrested 14 people for singing and playing music instruments in northern Afghanistan, the provincial police said on Saturday, May 10.
Since its return to power in 2021, the Taliban government has multiplied the laws to impose its ultra rigorist vision of the Islamic law, for example, the music transmitted in public, either on television, during concerts, at the bottom of restaurants or escaping from drivers’ drivers.
On Thursday night, in the main city of the province of Takhar, “14 individuals (…) took advantage of the darkness of the night to join in a house where they played musical instruments and sung songs, causing a disorder to public order,” said a police statement. Investigations against arrested people have been opened, adds the text.
Burned shape or instruments
After returning to power, the Taliban authorities made music schools and instruments often destroyed or burned, as well as speakers to avoid “moral corruption” and “deviation of young people.”
Wedding rooms no longer have the right to move from music, even if it often reproduces in secret women, separated from the part of men.
In recent years, many musicians have abandoned the country, especially because they had lost their livelihood in one of the poorest countries in the world. The Taliban encouraged those who remain to resort to the declamation of religious songs or poetry, as they had done during their previous reign (1996-2001).
Source: BFM TV
