{"id":734776,"date":"2021-09-09T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734776"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:06:07","slug":"taliban-tortured-journalists-who-covered-protests-in-kabul-despite-free-press-pledge-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-tortured-journalists-who-covered-protests-in-kabul-despite-free-press-pledge-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Tortured Journalists Who Covered Protests In Kabul Despite \u2018Free Press\u2019 Pledge: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-tortured-journalists-who-covered-protests-in-kabul-despite-free-press-pledge-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Taliban-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban pledged to protect a \u201cfree media\u201d and safeguard women\u2019s rights in a press conference just hours after taking Kabul, Afghanistan, but the Taliban is now accused of holding and torturing two journalists from the Afghan newspaper&nbsp;Etilaatroz who covered a women\u2019s rights protest in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Taqi Daryabi and Nematullah Naqdi, Etilaatroz reporters, \u201cwere detained by the Taliban while covering a women\u2019s protest in the west of Kabul on Wednesday morning,\u201d Al Jazeera reported. Two of their colleagues were \u201cpushed and slapped\u201d and had their belongings confiscated when they showed up at a Taliban outpost to inquire about the two journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaqdi and his colleague reporter Taqi Daryabi, both of whom work for Etilaat Roz (Information Daily), were assigned to cover a protest in front of a police station in Kabul by women demanding the right to work and education. This was one of the many protests that took place in the country before the Taliban banned protests without permission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/put-his-foot-on-my-head-afghan-journalists-recount-taliban-torture-for-covering-women-s-protest-101631179750850.html\">Hindustan Times added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were interrupted as soon as they started taking photos. \u2018They told me \u201cYou cannot film,\u201d\u2018 Naqdi said adding that they tried to grab his camera but he gave it to someone in the crowd. After hours of beating and detainment, they were released,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>Naqdi told media Wednesday that a Taliban official told him, \u201cYou are lucky you weren\u2019t beheaded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that \u201cone of the Taliban put his foot on his head and then crushed his face against the concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought they were going to kill me,\u201d he told a French newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Etilaat Roz posted photos of the reporters\u2019 injuries on Twitter. The graphic pictures show one man with injuries to his shoulders and another with dozens of long welts circling his waist and legs as though he was whipped. The two men say they were flogged and lashed with cables, kicked, and beaten with guns.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times also posted a photo of the pair showing similar injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3859154929577\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Painful. Afghan journalists from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Etilaatroz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Etilaatroz<\/a>, Nemat Naqdi &amp; Taqi Daryabi, display wounds sustained from Taliban torture &amp; beating while in custody after they were arrested for reporting on a women\u2019s rally in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kabul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JournalismIsNotACrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JournalismIsNotACrime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jt631nRB69\">https:\/\/t.co\/jt631nRB69<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcIuCy6GVw\">pic.twitter.com\/CcIuCy6GVw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus Yam \u6587\u706b (@yamphoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yamphoto\/status\/1435738713452158979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Taliban also announced that it was banning protests after a women\u2019s rights demonstration in Kabul gained global attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/actions-or-words-afghan-journalists-question-talibans-free-press-pledge-2021-08-19\/\">Reuters reported in mid-August<\/a>, shortly after the Taliban captured the Afghan capital city of Kabul, that the group was working toward a more \u201cinclusive\u201d government in order to gain official global recognition. Among the pledges of the new and improved Taliban: a free press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn its first press conference since capturing the capital Kabul, the Islamist militant movement said on Tuesday it would allow free media and jobs for women \u2013 banned when it was last in power from 1996 to 2001,\u201d Reuters noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate media can continue to be free and independent; they can continue their activities \u2026 Impartiality of the media is very important. They can critique our work so that we can improve,\u201d a Taliban spokesperson said at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>That pledge met with almost immediate skepticism. A reporter for an Afghan state-run radio and television network told Reuters that the Taliban \u201ctook his camera and beat up his colleague while he was trying to film a story\u201d on Kabul\u2019s conquerors. \u201cSeveral media watchdogs have also reported incidents of Afghan journalists being beaten, harassed or raided at their homes in recent days,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>The beaten reporters and their colleagues said that they received a firm warning from the Taliban before being allowed to leave:&nbsp;\u201cWhat these protesters were doing is illegal and by covering such things, you all broke the law. We will let you go this time, but next time you won\u2019t be let out so easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban pledged to protect a \u201cfree media\u201d and safeguard women\u2019s rights in a press conference just hours after taking Kabul, Afghanistan, but the Taliban is now accused of holding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}