Taliban Detains Journalist For Supporting Girls’ Education in Kandahar
Taliban have detained Sher Ahmad Noori, a local journalist, for putting up a Facebook post supporting girls’ education in Kandahar. Local sources told Afghanistan International that Noori has been detained at the Taliban prison since the past week.
Noori, in a post on his Facebook account, had written that “whoever is against our children’s education is our main enemy”.
Sources told Afghanistan International that despite efforts and repeated demands of journalists and his family, the Taliban haven’t released Noori.
In his Facebook post, Noori had pointed to the Friday prayer speech of an Imam and had written that “Mullah Saheb with courage and a loud voice said that girls’ education is haram [forbidden]”.
This journalist had emphasised that “no one had the zeal and courage to stand in front of the mosque and throw out the mullah”.
Sources told Afghanistan International that after this Facebook post, Taliban forces detained the journalist and according to this source he had been warned by the Taliban earlier as well.
