A group of Afghan men who like to dress up as Peaky Blinders characters have been arrested by the Taliban for violating ‘Islamic values’.

Known as the ‘Jebrael Shelbys’, the group often posts videos of themselves dressed as the fictional Birmingham crime family in western Afghanistan.

But this ‘promotion’ of foreign culture has landed the four in a prison cell, with the morality police saying the men had begun a ‘correction programme’.

Taliban spokesman Said Khyber said: ‘We, praise be to God, are Muslims and Afghans; we have our own religion, culture and values.

‘We have saved this country from the spread of corrupt cultures through great sacrifices, and now we will defend it as well.’

One of the men, Asghar Hussaini, spoke on YouTube about how the foursome had tried to showcase diff

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