4 journalists have been arrested whereas two TV channels have been shut down within the Taliban’s newest crackdown on Afghan media.
Reporters With out Borders (RSF) has known as for the discharge of 4 radio journalists and the reopening of two “essential” privately-owned TV channels amid current Taliban restrictions on media freedom in Afghanistan over the previous few weeks. Have been victims.
The most recent victims embody three radio journalists in Khost province who have been arrested on April 22 for broadcasting music and receiving calls from feminine listeners through the broadcast.
On April 6, Taliban intelligence arrested a radio reporter in Ghazni province for his reporting. His telephone was confiscated, its contents inspected and on April 16, two non-public TV channels, Noor TV and Baria TV, have been shut down for not respecting ‘nationwide and Islamic values’.
RSF says that these punitive selections are the most recent episodes within the Taliban’s unbridled ban on the media. The authorities proceed to focus on journalists, significantly these working for overseas media, who’re accused of defaming the Taliban regime and are subjected to arbitrary detention and all types of restrictions.
On the similar time, their censorship of privately owned TV information channels goals to eradicate any reporting that’s not below authorities management, Reporters With out Borders stated.
RSF has demanded the rapid launch of the 4 detained radio journalists and appealed to the authorities to carry the suspension of Noor TV and Baria TV channels.
