Afghan women raise their voices in song in online protests against Taliban's bid to silence them

Afghan women have turned to social media to protest the latest draconian edict issued by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, which the Biden administration says is aimed at erasing them completely from society. Women both inside and outside the country have posted poignant videos of themselves singing — a defiant response to the Taliban's latest restrictive laws prohibiting women and girls from using their voices or showing their faces outside their homes.

As CBS News reported, Article 13 of the 114-page law adopted by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers in August states that if a woman leaves her own home, "she is obligated to hide her voice, face, and body." 

The Biden administration said the law sought to remove women completely from public life in Afghanistan and it has expressed growing frustration with the country's Taliban regime, which swept back to power in the summer of 2021 as U.S. and allied forces pulled out in a chaotic withdrawal.