Taliban allows men to beat their wives

[david44]

Of course USA like UK and Russia befor brought moderate behaviour to ....errr Afghanistan

Taliban decree allows men in Afghanistan to beat their wives, bans dissent | CNN

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, lasting wounds.
Human rights campaigners have decried the move as “devastating” and warned that women’s recourse to justice would be further curtailed.
“The men have the right to rule completely the women,” rights activist Mahbouba Seraj told CNN from Kabul. “His word is the word of law – that’s it.”







The decree was issued last month but has only recently come to international attention after it was leaked to the Afghan rights group Rawadari, which published it in the original Pashto. The Afghan Analysts Network then translated the document into English.
The punishments it details have already been widespread in Afghanistan, but this is the first time that they have been so clearly codified since the United States and its allies withdrew from the country in August 2021, allowing the Taliban to return to power.
The Taliban insists that all its rulings are in line with Islamic Sharia law and have religious legitimacy.
“If a husband beats his wife so severely that it results in a broken bone, or an open wound, or a black and blue wound appears on her body, and the wife appeals to a judge, then the husband will be considered an offender,” the code says, according to the Afghan Analysts Network’s translation. “A judge should sentence him to 15 days’ imprisonment.”
The punishment for animal abuse is more severe. The decree says that anyone who forces animals like dogs or cockerels to fight should be sentenced to five months in prison.
The decree also permits a father to punish their child for, among another things, failing to pray. The punishment for a teacher who so severely beats a student that a bone is broken is to be removed from their job.
Given that women in Afghanistan are prohibited from leaving the home without a male guardian, activists say the new law will prevent women from seeking justice even in cases of severe physical violence. Afghanistan’s Sharia Law also dictates that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man.
Women have seen their rights steadily degraded since the Taliban returned to power. Women are banned from almost all work outside the home. UNICEF estimates that more than two million girls and women have been shut out of education by the Taliban’s ban on them attending secondary school and university.
The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva Thursday that the decree was “legitimizing violence against women and children, and warned that “Afghanistan is a graveyard for human rights.
“Afghanistan’s women and girls face extreme gender-based discrimination and oppression that amounts to persecution,” Türk said. “The system of segregation is reminiscent of apartheid, based on gender rather than race.”


Women in Afghanistan have seen their rights steadily degraded since the Taliban returned to power.
Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images



The decree also clamps down on dissent. Anyone who insults Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada must receive 39 lashes and a year in prison, while anyone who “humiliates senior officials” is subject to six months’ imprisonment and 20 lashes.
Rawadari, the activist group that first circulated the decree, said it was “incompatible with even the most basic standards of fair trial, including the principle of equality before the law.”
The death penalty, too, is sanctioned for a wide range of crimes.
A judge or imam may sentence to death anyone who spread doctrines “contrary to Islam” and anyone who “persistently” engages in theft, homosexuality, heresy, sorcery, or anything other than vaginal sex.
Activists say that the way the doctrine defines a “Muslim” leaves wide latitude for authorities to punish religious minorities in what is a diverse country.
“I cannot tell you the number of calls I’m getting from women who are desperate all over Afghanistan,” Seraj, the women’s rights activist, told CNN. “When you have these kinds of laws being implemented and the husband can decide on everything then forget it. At least before there was a fear of the courts, judges. Women would complain. Now what?”

.................................................. .................................................. ....
IMHO


Wifebeaters yes, sodomites no.......America's longest war produced this

No Rum , no overt sodomy but on the lash, what a world

[NamPikToot]

Ain't Islam great

[taxexile]

Ain't Islam great.




Taliban allows men to beat wives – so long as they don’t break bones

Afghanistan government introduces new code that allows beatings, bans women from escaping violence and makes justice structurally impossible


Code says a woman who goes to her parents’ home without her husband’s permission – even to escape violence – faces prison.

19 February 2026 2:48pm GMT

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

The Telegraph obtained the 60-page penal code – signed by Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader, and distributed to courts across Afghanistan – which classifies spousal beatings as “ta’zir” – discretionary punishment – rather than a criminal act.

A husband may strike his wife and children freely, provided the violence does not leave visible bone fractures or open wounds.

Even where serious injury can be proven, the maximum sentence is 15 days in prison.


The law is written to ensure that the bar is almost never met.

To pursue a complaint, a woman must present her wounds in person to a male judge while remaining fully veiled and accompanied by a male guardian.

In the majority of domestic violence cases, that guardian is the husband who committed the beating.

There is no provision in the code prohibiting physical, psychological or sexual violence against women.

For those who do attempt to flee, the law offers another trap.

Article 34 says that a woman who goes to her parents’ home without her husband’s permission – even to escape violence – faces up to three months in prison. Family members who shelter her face the same sentence.


The code dismantles the legal framework established under Afghanistan’s previous government, including a 2009 law that criminalised forced marriage, rape and gender-based violence and imposed sentences of between three months and one year for domestic abuse.

Working-class Afghans at the bottom of the hierarchy face imprisonment and corporal punishment.

The code explicitly distinguishes between “free” citizens and “slaves.”

The requirement to bring a male chaperone to court – where that chaperone is, in most cases, the abuser – makes justice structurally impossible.

The criminalisation of fleeing to a parent’s home makes escape structurally impossible.

The Taliban has since ruled that discussing the penal code is itself a criminal offence.

Narges, a former university student in western Herat, told The Telegraph: “The world has always shown its unjust side to us. I do not feel like I am living, and this feeling is shared by everyone I know.”

She added: “Our life is more like a constant resistance against everything out there. No one sees us. No one cares about us.

“This new law is not just a law – it is making our bodies their field of control. No one would see our pain unless our bones are broken. They are legalising fear. We are living in fear and silence.”

The penal code says a husband may strike his wife and children freely, provided the violence does not leave visible bone fractures or open wounds.


Article 59 criminalises dancing – performing it and watching it – without providing any legal definition of what dancing constitutes.

“Dance for boys and girls, and those who play music for them, or the people who watch (attend) the show, are all criminals. The judge shall sentence each one of them to two months’ imprisonment.”

The new law also criminalises thought. Criticising any action banned by the Taliban leadership is itself a criminal offence, including criticism of the ban on girls’ education, which Taliban courts now classify as a lawful restriction.

Under Article 23, insulting Taliban leaders carries 20 lashes and six months in prison.

Any Afghan who witnesses opposition activity and fails to report it to Taliban authorities faces two years in prison.

There is no right to a lawyer anywhere in the legal document.

The entire edifice of fair trial has been stripped out and replaced with the discretion of Taliban judges, operating without oversight, without appeal, and now with the force of signed, distributed, enacted law.

Religious minorities face their own specific jeopardy.

Article 2 designates followers of non-Hanafi Islamic schools – including Shia Muslims, Ismailis, Salafis and Ahl-e-Hadith, roughly 15 per cent of the population – as “innovators” or apostates.


Teachers are permitted to beat children in their care, with only the most extreme injuries – broken bones, torn skin, heavy bruising – defined as excess.

Other physical violence, all psychological violence, all sexual violence against children are not prohibited.

Article 48 explicitly permits fathers to physically punish sons from the age of 10. The code frames this as acting in the child’s interest.


Article 9 divides Afghan society into four formal tiers: religious scholars, elites, middle class, lower class.

The same crime committed by a scholar earns advice. Committed by an elite, it earns a court summons. If committed by a middle-class Afghan, the punishment is prison. And if committed by a working-class Afghan, the result is prison and corporal punishment.

Article 17 criminalises “mockery” of Islamic rulings with two years in prison, with no definition of what mockery means, leaving judges to decide arbitrarily.

Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban has systematically curbed women’s rights in Afghanistan.

The restrictions affect their daily lives, ranging from preventing them from showing their faces in public or driving a car, to forbidding conversations with men and restricting how they dress.


Women have already been ordered to cover their faces “to avoid temptation and tempting others” and refrain from speaking in the presence of unfamiliar men who are not husbands or close relatives.

Afghan women have also been ordered not to speak loudly inside their homes, to prevent their voices from being heard outside.

Women who defy the new rules will be arrested and sent to prison, the Taliban said.

In July 2024, a United Nations report said the ministry for promoting virtue and preventing vice was contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans through its edicts and the methods used to enforce them.

However, in recent months, there have been increasing signs of discord from within the ranks of the Taliban as it tries to transform itself from a guerrilla force to a functioning government.

[bsnub]

I am sure that cyrille will be long shortly to remind us that this is fake news and muslims are wonderful people.

[misskit]

Muslims are wonderful people. The Taliban ain’t. My cousin lived in Afghanistan for years and enjoyed it.

[bsnub]

My cousin lived in Afghanistan for years and enjoyed it.

I imagine that was before the USSR invasion? What years did your cousin live there?

[misskit]

Why? Were Afghanis not Muslims before the USSR invasion? You paint all people with the same brush.

[taxexile]

^You paint all people with the same brush.

better than whipping them for daring to show their face or open their mouths

[misskit]

Tax, you know damned well all Muslims aren’t bad people. You’ve traveled enough to know that. You’re just a wind up merchant.

[HermantheGerman]

Why? Were Afghanis not Muslims before the USSR invasion? You paint all people with the same brush.

Sorry but that was a pretty stupid answer.

Google Pictures Kabul 1970 1980 1990 ...

The picture are self explanatory

[misskit]

^ Were they not Muslims? What were they? Christians? Animist?

I don’t mean the government. The people. They were Muslims for centuries.

[NamPikToot]

Islam is top of the pile for repression of womens rights, but really MK don't you think that people who believe in a God and let religious leaders dictate their lives are morons? Worse though is that some of these religions try to dictate that everybody must follow their religion or face the consequences - on here though there are quite a few apologists for this religion.

[misskit]

How much choice do you think these people have other than to live under the yoke of oppressive religious governments?

[harrybarracuda]

This isn't new. The Taliban are arseholes.

[NamPikToot]

How much choice do you think these people have other than to live under the yoke of oppressive religious governments?

There are lot in the west who have been provided a home and a tollerant country to live in, but they chose intollerance toward those who have given them citizenship and frequently a funded life, they repay this by spreading their poisonous religious hate and worse.

[HermantheGerman]

^ Were they not Muslims? What were they? Christians? Animist?

I don’t mean the government. The people. They were Muslims for centuries.

a pack of Marlboro is still a pack of Marlboro, the difference is the price compared to 70's 80's

And in the old days cigarettes did not kill but now they do

[harrybarracuda]

There are lot in the west who have been provided a home and a tollerant country to live in, but they chose intollerance toward those who have given them citizenship and frequently a funded life, they repay this by spreading their poisonous religious hate and worse.

And the vast majority don't do that but you still treat them like shit anyway.

[taxexile]

How much choice do you think these people have other than to live under the yoke of oppressive religious governments?

All the more reason then for the more enlightened countries to push for regime change, and by force if necessary when dealing with states that export their beliefs like iran.

And no, of course not all muslims are bad people, but islam is a faith with no exit door and a fanatic belief in the faith can push susceptible minds with little in the way of education except religious indoctrination to do terrible things. A strong unthinking belief in a faith such as islam is incompatible with western christian culture, and that is why i do nit want to see the west colonised by islam. It will supress christianity.

[Topper]

All the more reason then for the more enlightened countries to push for regime change

Which countries are those and how did the work out the last time in Afghanistan?

[NamPikToot]

And the vast majority don't do that but you still treat them like shit anyway.

who do i "treat like shit"?

My view is that religion should have no part in the running of a country or impinge on the lives of citizens who are not religious

[kingwilly]

better than whipping them for daring to show their face or open their mouths

how droll

[kingwilly]

All the more reason then for the more enlightened countries to push for regime change, and by force if necessary when dealing with states that export their beliefs like iran.

And no, of course not all muslims are bad people, but islam is a faith with no exit door and a fanatic belief in the faith can push susceptible minds with little in the way of education except religious indoctrination to do terrible things. A strong unthinking belief in a faith such as islam is incompatible with western christian culture, and that is why i do nit want to see the west colonised by islam. It will supress christianity.

tell us about the Jewish suppression of the Middle East?

[taxexile]

Your question is ambiguous.

Do you mean israeli, or do you mean jewish.

[HermantheGerman]

tell us about the Jewish suppression of the Middle East?

Tell us about Islamic suppression in Indonesia? You are an expert in that area or are you afraid?

Hope Ramadan hasn't caused a brain drain and you can openly discuss your suppression.

[Edmond]

Taliban allows men to beat wives

"Just like what we did to the entire American military, AlsameshAlukhamaneniii!!"

so long as they don’t break bones

"But do it a lot softer, Alshamooosh!"