Taliban morality police arrest men for wrong hairstyle or skipping mosque – UN

An Afghan street barber man, left, trims the moustache of a customer, as snow is seen the back ground in Kabul, Afghanistan (Musadeq Sadeq/AP)

The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report has said.

It comes six months after laws regulating people’s conduct in the country came into effect.