Two journalists for Kabul-based newspaper Etilaat-e Roz were detained by Taliban militants while covering a protest for women’s rights on September 7. They were released hours later covered in bruises and barely able to walk. RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi spoke to the newspaper’s founder about the beatings and the dangers faced by journalists trying to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 1, 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on the Taliban leadership to provide immediate guarantees for the freedom and safety of female journalists in Afghanistan, where it said hundreds of them have been forced to stay home since the hard-line Islamist group took control of the country more than
Jamie Dettmer VOA News August 25, 2021 “We are really in danger — it is dreadful here now, and they are searching for us,” the 22-year-old Afghan student says. Esin, like other female students, especially those who also worked with Western embassies, missions and NGOs in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as she did, is desperate
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 24, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Female schoolteachers and other employed women in two provinces of Afghanistan are reporting harassment by Taliban fighters even as a Taliban spokesman Tuesday promised that the group is forming a policy to keep women secure. Women in Takhar province, in the country’s northeast, and Kabul province
VOA News August 21, 2021 WASHINGTON – At least two female journalists working for a state-owned broadcaster in Afghanistan have said the Taliban are not allowing them to work. Since entering Kabul last Sunday, the Taliban have taken control of government agencies, including state-run media. When journalists at the national Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) arrived
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 20, 2021 The German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) says Taliban fighters have shot and killed a close relative of one of its journalists, heightening international concerns over the safety of media workers and their families under the hard-line Islamist group’s rule. The militants killed the relative and seriously wounded
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 18, 2021 Prominent female news presenter Shabnam Dawran is one of Afghanistan’s most recognizable faces. But after the Taliban’s takeover of the Afghan capital on August 15, she was promptly fired along with all her female colleagues. A Taliban militant flanked by a white Taliban flag took her
Ariana: An Ariana News journalist, a Pajhwok Afghan News photographer and a reporter for Khorshid TV were allegedly assaulted by Taliban members on Wednesday. The Ariana News reporter, Mahmoud Naimi, and Pajhwok photographer, Babrak Aminzadah, were both allegedly beaten while covering a demonstration in Nangarhar, while the Khorshid TV journalist, Nawid Ahmad Kawesh, was allegedly
By Ayaz Gul, Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News / August 17, 2021 ISLAMABAD/KABUL – The Taliban said Tuesday talks on the formation of an “inclusive Islamic” government in Afghanistan are near conclusion as the radical movement consolidates its hold over the war-torn country. The Taliban stunned the world over the weekend when they retook power in Kabul, the
Many Afghan journalists and activists have gone into “hiding” the day after Taliban fighters took control of the capital, Kabul. One RFE/RL Radio Azadi reporter, whose identity could not be revealed for security reasons, sees “a dark future” ahead. He said there were reports of Taliban militants going “house-to-house” and shooting people in the