The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has announced that the Taliban have detained seven journalists over the past month.
On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, the organization called for the release of these journalists and urged the Taliban to cease arbitrary detentions.
The Federation stated that on July 24, 2025, the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice detained the editor-in-chief of Tanwa News Agency, along with two journalists from the outlet, named Bashir Hatef and Ahmad Shekab Nazari.
According to the organization, the Taliban detained these three media workers on charges of receiving funding for projects supporting women.
Additionally, the Federation reported that Ahmad Nawid Askari and Mushtaq Ahmad Halimi, the president and vice-president of Pixel Media, were detained in Kabul.
The Taliban accused these two individuals of dubbing an “un-Islamic” series for foreign media.
The group released them after extracting forced confessions.
Furthermore, the International Federation of Journalists reported the detention of two other unidentified journalists, whom the Taliban accused of collaborating with media outlets in exile.
The organization noted that since the beginning of 2024, it has recorded 48 cases of violations against journalists’ rights in Afghanistan, 28 of which involved detentions.
This comes as reports from the Afghanistan Journalists Center have documented a higher number of violations against journalists and media outlets by the Taliban.
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