Taliban detained journalists over 250 times in Afghanistan since takeover, U.N. says
Since taking power three years ago, the Taliban have unjustly jailed journalists 256 times, according to the United Nations mission to Afghanistan, which asked Afghan authorities to safeguard the media.
The Taliban-led foreign ministry denied having detained that many journalists in a response to the news, adding that those detained had committed a crime.
According to a statement from the U.N. mission (UNAMA) and the U.N. Human Rights Offices, journalists in Afghanistan faced difficult working conditions.
According to Roza Otunbayeva, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' special representative, they frequently encounter ambiguous guidelines regarding what they may and cannot report, putting them at danger of intimidation and arbitrary detention for alleged criticism.
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