This Taliban is the same ole Taliban. No matter what they said during press conferences in an effort to appease the global community the Taliban were always going to revert to type. Women playing sport: Banned, women in government no thank you, protests against are government: Don't even think about it.
Of course there was, we'll accept a free press pronouncements as if such a thing would ever be allowed. Several Afghani journalists were arrested and others beaten by the Taliban as they attempted to cover those protesting against the current government.
A spate of violent attacks on Afghan journalists by the Taliban is prompting growing alarm over the freedom of the country’s media, with one senior journalist declaring that “press freedom has ended”.
As images and testimony circulated internationally of the arrest and brutal flogging of two reporters who were detained covering a women’s rights demonstration in Kabul on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists raised concern over the recent string of attacks.
In just two days this week, the Taliban detained and later released at least 14 journalists covering protests in Kabul, with at least six of these journalists subject to violence during their arrests or detention, the CPJ reported.
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