Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 28 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm Print
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Kabul: Afghanistan Journalists Union has said the Taliban government arrested three journalists of the local Milat Ghag radio station in the southeastern Kandahar province of the violence-hit country.
The Union in a Twitter post on Monday, March 28, 2022, said Newsroom manager Farid Alizai, the technician Mahmood Mehraban, and producer Rahimullah Noori are those arrested, reports Khaama Press.
Head of the radio station Bismillah Watandos told the news agency the Taliban have stopped broadcasts of the station and have shut the media.
Neither the provincial officials nor officials in the capital Kabul have commented on the detention of media workers but media workers of ten different media were summoned by the Taliban in Kandahar province on Sunday, reports Khaama Press.
The media workers and officials were even directed by Taliban that they should stop telecasting music or they will be held accountable.
Based on the new policy of the IEA for media outlets in Afghanistan, broadcasting music, foreign TV series, and movies are banned, reports Khaama Press.
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