{"id":25404,"date":"2026-11-04T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/04\/taliban-herat-childrens-dolls-confiscated-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:45:17","slug":"taliban-herat-childrens-dolls-confiscated-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/04\/taliban-herat-childrens-dolls-confiscated-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Morality Police in Herat Confiscate Children&#8217;s Dolls Amid Increasing Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat has collected several children&#8217;s toys, including a pink teddy bear and several humanoid dolls resembling Barbie dolls, from homes. <\/p>\n<p>This move is part of the Taliban administration&#8217;s ongoing restrictive policies, which previously ordered clothing stores in Herat to sever the heads of mannequins, as the department considers mannequins to represent idolatry and un-Islamic practices. <\/p>\n<p>Pressure from the morality police on the local population, especially women, has intensified. Women who fail to adhere to the Taliban&#8217;s dress codes\u2014such as wearing the burqa, prayer chador, or Arabic-style chador accompanied by a face veil\u2014are being detained. <\/p>\n<p>These actions have had detrimental effects on women&#8217;s rights and civil liberties in the region and have prompted widespread condemnation from human rights activists and various segments of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban morality police in Herat confiscate children&#8217;s dolls and intensify restrictions on women, triggering criticism from human rights groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}