In Afghanistan, the Taliban decree the ban on playing chess – Liberation

However, these are not « checks », but failures. Nevertheless, The Taliban, Seeing the vice everywhere, now consider the set of set « Like a way to bet money ». Consequence: he joins Fissa The list of prohibited activities Because deemed contrary to the law adopted last year on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice (PVPV) – on manners, in short.

Subject to« Religious issues », « failures will be suspended in Afghanistan as long as these issues are not treated », announced Sibylline this Sunday, May 11, the sports spokesperson for the Afghan regime, Atal Mashwani, without specifying the sanction in the event of a violation of This umpteenth ban.

Patron of a Kabul cafe where customers gladly devoted themselves to this game, Azizullah Gulzada, 46, tells AFP that he will make the prohibition respect, without saying to himself convinced by religious arguments, invoking the « Many Muslim countries (which) have players of an international level (and) who participate in international meetings ». « Many (young) came here every day, without Paris of money », he adds, regretting that they now have fewer pretexts to come together.

In 2024, MMA (mixed martial arts) competitions were banned, the government believing that they were too « Violent » And « Problems with regard to Sharia law », While cricket practice is still very widespread, but only in men. After resuming power in 2021, Taliban authorities have gradually imposed their ultra -regigrist vision of Islamprohibiting certain sports, therefore, and certain activities, including music broadcast in public – on television, during concerts, in the background in restaurants or escaping from drivers.

Fourteen people were arrested in northern Afghanistan, provincial police announced on Saturday. Their wrong: having sang and played music. It is in the chief town of the province of Takhar, that these « 14 individuals (…) took advantage of the darkness of the night to come together in a house where they played musical instruments and sung songs, causing a disturbance to public order », Ensures a police press release. Investigations have been opened against the people arrested, adds the text.

Since 2021, the Taliban authorities have also closed music schools and instruments have often been shattered or burned, just like speakers to avoid « Moral corruption » And « The deviance of youth ». As for the wedding rooms, they no longer have the right to move from music, even If it is often played in secret women, separated from the men’s part.

In recent years, many musicians have left 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 fall back on the declamation of religious songs or poetry, as they had done during their previous reign (1996-2001).

Afghan women are the subject of gradually total ostracization of the Taliban, who have prohibited them from access to parks, sports halls, beauty institutes and universities, pushing the UN to denounce a « Gender apartheid ».