The Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a statement said Taliban intelligence officers have issued death pitfalls against intelligencers who have blamed Taliban officers and have needed intelligencers to submit all reports for blessing before publication.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday ( original time) raised enterprises regarding the duty of strict new media guidelines in Afghanistan by the Taliban that especially harm women.
The HRW in a statement said Taliban intelligence officers have issued death pitfalls against intelligencers who have blamed Taliban officers and have needed intelligencers to submit all reports for blessing before publication.
New guidelines from the Vice and Virtue Ministry mandate the dress of womanish intelligencers on TV and enjoin cleaner operas and entertainment programs featuring womanish actors, the rights group said.
“The Taliban’s new media regulations and pitfalls against intelligencers reflect broader sweats to silence all review of Taliban rule,” said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at HRW.”The exposure of any space for dissent and worsening restrictions for women in the media and trades is ruinous.”
Several intelligencers said that they’ve been summoned by original officers incontinently after publishing reports on Taliban abuses. One intelligencer who had reported complaints about Taliban searching houses and beating people said that the deputy governor called him into his office and told him that if he broadcast anything like that again,”He’d hang me in the city forecourt.”
Other media staff have reported that heavily fortified Taliban intelligence officers visited their services and advised intelligencers not to use the word”Taliban”in their reporting but to relate to the”Islamic Emirate”in all publications.
Last week, the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice banned broadcasting any flicks supposed to be”against Islamic or Afghan values,”along with cleaner operas and dramatizations featuring women actors, and made the hijab-a head covering exposing the face-mandatory for women TV intelligencers.
The Taliban have also pressed the media, especially in the businesses, to publish the reports they want and have ordered intelligencers in some cases to solicit them, the rights group said. One intelligencer said”After they hovered us with death, we published what they said. Now we broadcast Quranic verses at the morning of the programs and naat (Islamic songs) because we sweat for our safety.”
Numerous media outlets have closed their services out of fear and are publishing only online.”Despite the Taliban’s pledges to allow media that’ reputed Islamic values’to serve, the reality for Afghanistan is that intelligencers live in fear of a knock on the door or a process from the authorities,”Gossman said.
