{"id":6771,"date":"2026-01-11T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/issue-update-afghanistan-assessing-the-law-on-the-propagation-of-virtue-and-prevention-of-vice\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:48:05","slug":"issue-update-afghanistan-assessing-the-law-on-the-propagation-of-virtue-and-prevention-of-vice","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/issue-update-afghanistan-assessing-the-law-on-the-propagation-of-virtue-and-prevention-of-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue Update: Afghanistan &#8211; Assessing the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Issue Update: Afghanistan &#8211; Assessing the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-18627\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>In August 2024, the Taliban introduced the law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known colloquially as the \u201cmorality law.\u201d This law expands on and imposes harsher punishments on all Afghans who fail to observe the Taliban\u2019s struct religious interpretation of Islam. A year after the law\u2019s enactment, this publication considers the religious freedom implications and the enforcement of its strict provisions in 2025, focusing on the repercussions for religious minority communities and Afghan women.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-08\/2025%20Issue%20Update%20Afghanistan%20Morality%20Law_0.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publications\/issue-update-afghanistan-assessing-law-propagation-virtue-and-prevention-vice?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Update: Afghanistan &#8211; Assessing the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice In August 2024, the Taliban introduced the law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known colloquially as the \u201cmorality law.\u201d This law expands on and imposes harsher punishments on all Afghans who fail to observe the Taliban\u2019s struct religious interpretation of&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":6772,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[907,908,906,909,912,910,513,913,911],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-6771","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-afghanistan","tag-assessing","tag-issue","tag-law","tag-prevention","tag-propagation","tag-update","tag-vice","tag-virtue","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-08\/Afghanistan%20Publication.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}