The Taliban pledged to protect a “free media” and safeguard women’s rights in a press conference just hours after taking Kabul, Afghanistan, but the Taliban is now accused of holding and torturing two journalists from the Afghan newspaper Etilaatroz who covered a women’s rights protest in the capital city.
Taqi Daryabi and Nematullah Naqdi, Etilaatroz reporters, “were detained by the Taliban while covering a women’s protest in the west of Kabul on Wednesday morning,” Al Jazeera reported. Two of their colleagues were “pushed and slapped” and had their belongings confiscated when they showed up at a Taliban outpost to inquire about the two journalists.
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