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AFJC Raises Alarm Over New Taliban Vice and Virtue laws Imposing Stricter Media Censorship
Officials from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice hold a news conference in Kabul on August 20, 2024. (Taliban government's media and information center)...
AFJC Releases Report on the State of Media and Journalistic Freedom During the Third Year of Taliban Rule
August 13, 2024
KABUL– Ahead of the third anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has released a report on p...
Local Journalist Mohammad Ibrahim Mohtaji Arrested in Kandahar
July 29, 2024
Kandahar - Mohammad Ibrahim Mohtaj, a local journalist in southern Kandahar province, has been arrested by the Virtue and Vice Department. The Afghanistan Jouranlists ...
AFJC Calls for Immediate Release of Journalist Seyed Rahim Saidi Detained by GDI in Kabul
July 21, 2024
KABUL – The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) is demanding the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Seyed Rahim Saidi from Taliban authorities, as w...
AFJC Documents 89 Media Freedom Violations in Afghanistan in First Half of 2024
The scene at a Taliban news conference in Kabul. Credit: Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
July 17, 2024
Freelance journalist Mohammadyar Majrooh detained in Kandahar
July 17, 2024
Kandahar - The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) is deeply concerned following the recent arrest of freelance journalist Mohammadyar Majrooh by Taliban security fo...