Male anchors mask up on air after Taliban decree for female news readers
India Today
The country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry, in its latest clampdown on women’s freedom, has made it mandatory for female news presenters to cover their faces on air.
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The country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry, in its latest clampdown on women’s freedom, has made it mandatory for female news presenters to cover their faces on air. The new mandate, when it first came in last week, saw sparse compliance, which made the ruling group enforce it last evening.
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Soon, the men in the rooms began covering their faces. Suited and not a hair out of place, the male anchors were breaking stories on air but with masks on their faces.
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In no time, Twitter was abuzz with the newest hashtag: #Freeherface, with journalists, men and women, Afghans and from all over the world, posting masked-up photos of them.
Extraordinary to see male news presenters at @TOLOnews standing with female anchors who have been ordered to cover their faces #journalismisnotacrime pic.twitter.com/VWiFowq5XD
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