A Taliban official said that the four were not formally arrested but were “summoned and advised and released”.

Four young men in Afghanistan were detained by the Taliban and put into a rehabilitation programme for walking around in public dressed as characters from the popular British drama ‘Peaky Blinders’.

According to a report by CBS News, officials from the Taliban government’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said the men who had become popular in their local Jibrail township, in the southern province of Herat, for strolling through the streets in trench coats and flat caps, were retained for “promoting foreign culture”.

Saif-ur-Islam Khyber, a spokesperson for the ministry, said in a social media post that the men were taken into custody and enrolled

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