The Taliban is banning female journalists at a state television outlet from coming to work, reports say

Business Insider via MSN ^ | 8/20/21 | Grace Panetta

[Libloather]

The Taliban is already banning two female presenters at state-run Radio Television Afghanistan from coming to work work, according to the Washington Post and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Taliban, despite its public commitments to allowing women in public life, has a long track record of hostility to a free press and to women serving in public-facing roles. The group has ramped up its attacks on the media in recent months, and its retaking of Afghanistan is already rolling back much of the progress of the last 20 years on press freedom and women's equality in the country.

One female anchor at RTA, Khadija Amin, showed up to work to find that a male anchor had taken her place, with the new Taliban leadership of the outlet telling her to "stay at home for a few more days."

"There has been a change in the programs … [and] there are no female presenters or female journalists," Amin said, according to independent Tolo News.

Another female employee, presenter Shabnam Dawran, said she wasn't even let into the building.

"I was not allowed in, even though I was carrying my ID badge," Dawran said in a video posted to social media, according to the Post. "Male workers were allowed, but I was threatened. They told me that the regime has changed..our lives are under serious threat."

Female Afghan journalists have reported on the Taliban takeover of their country despite mounting threats from the Taliban.

In addition to the female broadcasters taken off the air, CNN reported on Monday that the Taliban had visited the homes of and made threatening calls to some female journalists. Taliban fighters also assaulted two male journalists covering protests in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, according to CPJ.

[howlinhound]

And arm them with skateboards!

[A strike]

“Time for all the women to head for Europe ... “

Ummm, NOT !!
No more Ilhan Nur Said Omar sharia agents, no more Little Somolia/Little Kabuls to subvert and destroy the West esp Britain, France, Sweden and almost all EU.

“Unmarried Afghan women should be given priority immigration by all countries - the head of the line.”
Ummm, NO!!!
ONLY to Islamic countries ! You want to bring More of that sheit here?!

[CatOwner]

Oh, the Squad will speak soon, and they’ll be blaming Trump for this and everything bad about Afghanistan. Heck, they probably could state Trump was the reason we went into Afghanistan in the first place and stayed there for 20 years, and they would produce a poll showing at least a plurality believing that.

[Bonemaker]

There are a helluva lot of American women that need some Talibanization.

[Cecily]

I wish they would too. Find some guns and ammunition and hide it under a burka (men who are not too tall could do this too). Wait for a good opportunity and start picking off those rabid dogs running through the streets assaulting people. Most of them are not wearing helmets or body armor.

Then hide your weapon under the burka and slide away.