Media-Affiliated To Taliban Censors Images Of Women At Int’l Energy Exhibition in Russia

Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, censored images of women participating in the 7th Russian International Energy Exhibition.

The Taliban's Minister of Mines, Hidayatullah Badri, also went to Moscow to attend the meeting.

In a photo published by Bakhtar News Agency on Friday, September 28, the faces and bodies of the four women participating in the ceremony were censored.

This comes as the Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has published the presence of the group's representatives at the Russian International Energy Summit with uncensored photos.

The meeting was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of at least 50 other countries.

Earlier, Taliban media had censored the faces of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson; Nazgul Usenova, Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Minister of Energy, and Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General's Representative for Afghanistan.

The Taliban have considered women's voices to be awrah (intimate) and have made their dress code compulsory. The group has also banned the publication of human images in some provinces.