Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public

Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan (Siddiqullah Alizai/AP)

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.

The laws were issued on Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said.