"They shouted at us, they grabbed our chess sets and pieces and they beat up two of my friends," he recalled. One of his friends tried to challenge the men, who work for the ministry for the prevention of vice and promotion of virtue, which upholds the Taliban's hardline interpretation of Islam, as fleshed out in its recent morality laws. He says one of them told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden."
"In short," Hassanzadeh said in a telephone interview, "this healthy and harmless entertainment was snatched away from us."
"In short," Hassanzadeh said in a telephone interview, "this healthy and harmless entertainment was snatched away from us."
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