Taliban pledge to support Right of Freedom of expression based on Islamic values

On Monday, Taliban pledged to support the freedom of expression under the Islamic regulations, local media reported citing officials.

Talking at a ceremony held to increase coordination between the media & related institutions, the spokesman for the Interior Minister Sayed Khosti said that the Islamic Emirate wouldn't allow anyone to silence the freedom of expression, the news agency reported.

He added that "The Islamic Emirate supports the freedom of expression based on Islamic values & the country's interest, & is committed to not allow anyone to make obstacles for the media".

According to the publication, the journalists & media watchdogs called on the officials of the Islamic Emirate to form a clear scheme for freedom of speech & media policy.

Abdul Moyed Hashimi, head of Afghanistan's journalists safety committee said, "An amendment should be formed for the media. So, based on the scheme of the Islamic Emirate the media should run their activities".

Meanwhile, Police radio, which had halted operations for nearly 3 months, resumed broadcasting on Monday, the news agency reported.

However, due to the shutdown of many media organizations which made dozens of media workers jobless, some Afghan journalists have been forced to take hazardous jobs.

Mustafa Jafari, a cameraman, who has worked in Afghan media for around eight years, is currently working as a vendor.

"I was jobless for four months. I felt that I was going to have mental problems because I was home night & days," the news agency quoted Jafari as saying.

Earlier a journalist union said that more than 30 acts of violence towards journalists have been recorded in Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power.

Masroor Lufti, the head of the union, said, "Afghanistan's National Journalists' Union conducted a general assessment over the journalists' status for Afghanistan across the country & it shows that over 30 cases of violence against journalists happened".

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