The Taliban banned women from parks in Afghanistan.
Afghan women will no longer be allowed to visit parks according to a spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
"For the last 14 or 15 months, we were trying to provide an environment according to Sharia and our culture for women to go to the parks," Muhajir was quoted as saying by the news agency.
The women didn't observe hijab as was suggested and the park owners didn't cooperate with us very well. He said that they are banned for now.
It wasn't known how long the ban would last.
In May of this year, the Taliban made it compulsory for women to cover their faces in public, with the ideal face covering being the burqa.
If a woman doesn't follow these rules, her father or closest male relative will eventually be imprisoned or fired from a government job.
The Taliban have put in place laws that restrict women's lives and activities since they took over.
The aocratic group closed girls' high schools and ordered them to stay home.
Women's travel has been limited by the Taliban.
The UN said that the Taliban's decision to institutionalize large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls was damaging to a generation of girls and the future of Afghanistan.
Speaking to Insider to mark a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, women's rights activist Yalda Royan described her country as becoming a "kind of cage for Afghan women; the birds who can't fly out of it just stuck inside the home without rights to movement, rights to
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