Posted on 09/09/2021 7:34:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Journalists in Afghanistan say that they have been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when attempting to cover protests.
Photos circulating online show two journalists from Etilaatroz newspaper with welts and bruises after their arrest in the capital Kabul.
One of them, Taqi Daryabi, told the BBC he had been taken to a district police station where he was kicked and beaten.
On Wednesday, the BBC's team were also prevented from filming.
Mr Daryabi, alongside Etilaatroz's photographer Nematullah Naqdi, had been covering a women's protest in Kabul on Wednesday.
Afterwards, they were taken to a police station, where they say they were beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips. A few hours later, they were released by the Taliban, without explanation.
"They took me to another room and handcuffed my hands behind me," he told the BBC's Secunder Kermani in Kabul. "I decided not to defend myself because I thought they would just beat me even worse, so I lay down on floor in a position to protect the front of my body.
"Eight of them came and they started beating me... Using sticks, police sticks, rubber - whatever they had in their hands. The scar on my face is from shoes where they kicked me in face.
"I was unconscious after that so they stopped. They took me to another building where there were cells and left me."
He asked why he was being beaten, only to be told: "You are lucky you weren't beheaded."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Beatings of “journalists”. Ok, every cloud has a silver lining.
Must be the same reason the U.S. fear if they report the truth on the Marxist democrat party.
Wonder how the Americans are doing? Guess it doesn’t matter since that’s so 5 minutes ago. ~sarc Biden is the biggest POS ever.
Beatings of “journalists”. Ok, every cloud has a silver lining.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing.
Guess the Taliban weren’t all bad
If only these journalists had been from CNN or the Washington Post...
Seriously. I like their painting over of leftist mural and journalist treatment policies. Not so much that I’m interested in joining up, but I have an open mind
OK, I shouldn’t be smiling now.
The Tallywackers appear to be off on the right foot.
Thanks, Joe!
Can we send the entire NYT staff over there too?
“Seriously. I like their painting over of leftist mural and journalist treatment policies. Not so much that I’m interested in joining up, but I have an open mind”
It’s been said many times that while the radical left embraces the islamists, they would be the first to be killed. Just another enticement.
Maybe they can send Jim Acosta.
Love to hear him complain to the Taliban thugs “Do YOU know who I am?”
If any president had at any point gone all Iwo Jima on Afghanistan these ‘ journalists’ would have been front and center with the woman and children killer slant in trying to stop it.
The Taliban knows.
The beatings will continue until morale improves
Don’t care.
They should be thankful they weren’t executed. Next up, lawyers.
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