Taliban Detained 5 Afghan Journalists Over Past Week, Says Media Support Group

Nai, supporting open media in Afghanistan, announced on Friday that the Taliban have detained five journalists in Afghanistan over the past week.

Nai called the Taliban’s detention of journalists "illegal" and urged the group to stop the arbitrary detention of Afghan journalists.

According to Nai’s statement, the Taliban detained Haseeb Hassas, a local reporter of Salam Watandar, in Kunduz province on Thursday.

Afghanistan Journalists Center also announced that the Taliban intelligence had arrested Faqir Mohammad Faqirzai and Jan Agha Saleh, journalists of Killid Radio, in Jalalabad city on Thursday.

It has been said that the Taliban members arrested and imprisoned Seyed Vahdatullah Abdali, a Bakhtar reporter, in Ghazni city on Sunday.

The Taliban have not reacted to the reports of the detention of Afghan journalists.

Nai had previously reported that more than 65 percent of journalists and media workers have lost their jobs in the past two years in Afghanistan.