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Christophe Deloire, the Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), also called the media coverage of Behboudi's arrest "extraordinary".

During a press conference at the headquarters of RSF in France he said, "Without the media, I wouldn't be alive.”

He thanked Afghanistan International and other media outlets for covering his detention and the international campaign for his release.

Deloire added that the media coverage "has sent an extraordinarily important message to the Taliban”.

Behboudi arrived in Kabul in January to report on the situation in Afghanistan. Two days later, he was arrested by the Taliban on suspicion of "espionage”. After enduring 284 days in Taliban’s detention, he was released on October 18.

This journalist spoke about his experience inside the Kabul Central Prison and said that about 1,200 other political prisoners were also kept there.

According to him, he was repeatedly interrogated and tortured by the Taliban, and said that he did not think he would make it out alive.

Behboudi said that after five court sessions, he was finally found not guilty and was released on the condition of submitting his “future articles to the Taliban for approval before publication".

They said that the 27-year-old hanged himself in his room on Sunday evening "due to mental stress from a difficult life in Indonesia".

A source said, "Indonesian police have requested 30 million Indonesian rupiah to transport the body of the man to Jakarta. Consequently, the Afghan refugees have been unable to retrieve the body from the hospital so far."

The sources said that the family members of this young man are in Australia and have paid 12,000 dollars to an Australian company to transfer his body to Jakarta.

Earlier, several Afghan refugees in Indonesia held a protest rally in front of the United Nations office in Makassar city and demanded that their immigration cases be processed.

Afghan immigrants in Indonesia grapple with an uncertain future, separation from family, and immigration-related restrictions. The prolonged duration of this situation, spanning several years, has placed some of them under significant psychological pressure.

In the poll, the participants were asked to choose "Islamic Emirate", "Presidential Republic", "Federal Republic" or “Partition” as their choice for the future of Afghanistan.

On Monday, in a statement, the party wrote, "Following the announcement of the poll results, the National Congress Party will take practical political measures to achieve it, respecting the option that the majority of people have agreed to."

Latif Pedram, the leader of the National Congress Party of Afghanistan, has said several times that the centralisation of power is the fundamental problem of citizens of Afghanistan, and he believes that this challenge can be addressed through the establishment of a "federal republic system”.

He also said that if the supporters of the centralised presidential republic insist on the centralisation of power and are not ready to talk about the establishment of a federal republic and the "fair power sharing among all ethnic groups in the country", he does not hesitate to go for partition of Afghanistan.

Protesters said that they have lost patience due to long waiting times for their asylum interviews.

In a video clip sent to Afghanistan International from Monday's demonstration, children, women and men can be seen holding placards that read: "Don't separate us from our families with long waiting time”.

In October 2022, the German foreign ministry had announced a programme to transfer 1,000 Afghan refugees to Germany every month.

According to the programme, priority would be given to the transfer of those who were active in justice, politics, media, education, culture, sport or academic sectors.

A year after the announcement of the programme, an organisation called "Kabul Luftbrücke" has said that only 13 Afghans have been transferred to Germany during this period. Kabul Luftbrücke operates to relocate at-risk refugees from Afghanistan to Germany.

However, Germany has sheltered thousands of Afghan refugees since the Taliban took over the power in 2021. Reports indicate that Germany has approved the transfer of over 1,400 of more than 30,000 Afghan applications since August 2021.

Children under the age of five will be vaccinated in Kunduz, Takhar, Baghlan, Parwan, Kapisa, Kabul, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Nangarhar, Paktia, Paktika, Khost and Ghazni provinces.

Residents of these provinces have been urged to vaccinate their children so that this disease can be eradicated in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are two countries in the world that have not yet succeeded in eradicating polio.

Earlier, health officials in Afghanistan had warned that this disease is increasing rapidly in the country.

According to these officials, this year at least six positive cases of polio have been registered in Nangarhar province.