2024-11-26
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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
I'm Monica Whitlock and on assignment I've been in conversation with a young woman in Afghanistan living under severe Taliban restrictions.
She's full of life and determination as you'll hear the voice of Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Hanifi, Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Afghanistan.
He's setting out details of the Taliban restrictions on the sound of women's voices.
It is written that women must not raise their voices aloud in prayer, he says, let alone sing songs.
According to the Law on Moral Decency, first issued in August 2024, no woman should read devotions aloud in a gathering or recite the a cappella chanting tarana that is still allowed in Afghanistan.
In place of music, it stipulates that a woman can only leave her house alone in case of urgent need.
And then she must cover her body, her face and her voice.
Hello to everyone who'll hear me without seeing me.
I extend my heartfelt greetings to all as you discover the hope, passion, strength and energy that define me, a young Afghan girl amid the sadness that geography has imposed upon me.
This is the diary of one young woman in Afghanistan.
We'll call her Leila, though it's not her real name, and I can't tell you where she lives.
Leila was a university student when the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
Now she's at home day after day, navigating the rules as best she can.
These are her thoughts through two weeks of this autumn, in conversation with me, Monica Whitlock, for assignment on the BBC World Service.
It's not her voice you can hear.