Afrigather Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Taliban and Afghan Unbiased Journalists Union (AIJU)
Dozens of radio stations in Taliban-led Afghanistan have been shut down as a result of financial hardship and media censorship because the militia authorities took over energy within the wake of United States army withdrawal almost two years in the past.
As per VOA, the president of the Afghan Unbiased Journalists Union (AIJU), Hujatullah Mujadidi, mentioned 345 radio stations have been in operation previous to the U.S. army withdrawal in August 2021, however the determine has now dropped to 228 because the Taliban regime returned to energy.
With 117 stations ceasing to exist, it has additionally affected the speed of individuals left jobless because of the brutal rule; an estimated 5,000 individuals, with 25% of them girls, have been working within the business earlier than the Taliban takeover.
However within the wake of the takeover, about 2,000 individuals have misplaced their jobs with half of them being girls.
Solely a small fraction f individuals remaining within the sector are girls as a result of regime guidelines that has proven little or no respect for rights of ladies in virtually all sectors within the nation.
The excessive fee through which radio stations stop broadcasting is linked to the sanctions and suspension of monetary aids imposed on Afghanistan by most Western international locations because the Taliban took over and the act has merely crippled the virtually all economic system constructions of the nation together with the media.
Additionally, the censorship positioned on media homes and journalists has performed its half within the epidemic affecting the Afghanistan media sector. The regime has positioned ban on informations that view as anti-Taliban whereas erring journalists have confronted imprisonment and even worse.
In keeping with a report by United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan in November final 12 months, greater than 200 journalists have suffered “arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, threats, and intimidation,” because the regime seized energy within the nation.
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