Women protest in Kabul: Authorities must allow female journalists to work

A number of women in Kabul protested on the occasion of Reporter’s Day over the Taliban’s restrictions on the country’s media.

The women, who protested in western Kabul yesterday, called on the authorities to respect the freedom of the press and to focus on strengthening the media instead of censoring and restricting it.

“The authorities should allow female journalists to work in the media and should not stop them from working in the media under various pretexts,” they said.

Stressing that female journalists should not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, the protesters called on the international community to pursue the issue of persecution and detention of journalists by the Taliban, and said that the group should be pressured to stop.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commanding the good and forbidding the bad of the Taliban has recently ordered the media in the country not to publish foreign serials.

TOLOnews wrote on its Twitter account that the Taliban government had informed the Moby Group representative on Thursday (May 16th) that the Taliban government had announced a final ban on broadcasting foreign serials in the Afghan video media.