{"id":4448,"date":"2026-10-17T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/202610174448"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:58:24","slug":"herat-women-on-humiliating-treatment-by-taliban-officials-we-wished-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/en\/202610174448","title":{"rendered":"Herat women on &#8216;humiliating&#8217; treatment by Taliban officials: &#8216;We wished for death&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several women and girls in Herat, speaking to the 8am newspaper, have shared bitter stories of humiliating encounters with the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, saying the treatment drove them to wish for death. The women report that they are not safe from harassment by the morality police even when complying with the Taliban&#8217;s dress code and accompanied by a male guardian (mahram). One woman said that after being summoned to the ministry&#8217;s office, she faced &#8220;ugly and insulting&#8221; behavior and was threatened with imprisonment if she continued her job.<\/p>\n<p>Another girl recounted how the Taliban stopped a car carrying her and her family for four hours, criticizing her brother for not having a beard. &#8220;That day, I told myself I wished I wasn&#8217;t alive,&#8221; she said. The women emphasize that the fear and anxiety from these encounters have severely restricted their freedom of movement.<\/p>\n<p>UN human rights bodies have previously expressed concern over the expanding powers of the Taliban&#8217;s morality police and the violation of women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in Herat say humiliating treatment by Taliban morality police is so painful that they have wished for death during encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_asc_send":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1032,1144,904,522],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women-en","tag-afghan-women","tag-herat","tag-human-rights","tag-taliban","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}