Taliban ban women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan in latest curb on freedom

Beauticians attend to customers at a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan. A spokesman at Afghanistan’s Vice and Virtue Ministry said the Taliban are banning women’s beauty salons (Rahmat Gul/AP/PA)

The Taliban are banning women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said.

It is the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most jobs.