The Taliban regime has banned news broadcasts from a number of international media companies including BBC, Dw and Voice of America (Voa), in Afghanistan.
The BBC’s news bulletins in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek have been ordered off air, while German media organization Dw’s programming will not be rebroadcast by Afghan partners. Specifically, Dw’s political talk show “Aashti” in Dari and in Pashto on local partner ToloNews and science programs broadcast on Ariana TV and Shamshad are the ones affected, according to Dw.
Meanwhile Taliban information and culture ministry spokesperson Abdul Haq Hammad told news agency dpa that Voa’s television broadcasts on Afghan channels have been ceased, but radio transmissions continue.
Tarik Kafala, head of languages, BBC World Service, said in a statement: “The BBC’s TV news programs in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek have been taken off air in Afghanistan, after the Taliban ordered our TV...
The BBC’s news bulletins in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek have been ordered off air, while German media organization Dw’s programming will not be rebroadcast by Afghan partners. Specifically, Dw’s political talk show “Aashti” in Dari and in Pashto on local partner ToloNews and science programs broadcast on Ariana TV and Shamshad are the ones affected, according to Dw.
Meanwhile Taliban information and culture ministry spokesperson Abdul Haq Hammad told news agency dpa that Voa’s television broadcasts on Afghan channels have been ceased, but radio transmissions continue.
Tarik Kafala, head of languages, BBC World Service, said in a statement: “The BBC’s TV news programs in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek have been taken off air in Afghanistan, after the Taliban ordered our TV...
- 3/28/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A relative of an editor from German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle was shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan in what the network is calling a targeted attack.
Widespread reports from Kabul claim that Taliban fighters have been going door-to-door in the city looking for notable collaborators with the previous regime as well as journalists. The unnamed German journalist is understood to have already relocated to Germany, while other family members had escaped at the last minute, director general Peter Limbourg said today.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” Limbourg said.
“It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organised searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time.”
Deutsche Welle...
Widespread reports from Kabul claim that Taliban fighters have been going door-to-door in the city looking for notable collaborators with the previous regime as well as journalists. The unnamed German journalist is understood to have already relocated to Germany, while other family members had escaped at the last minute, director general Peter Limbourg said today.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” Limbourg said.
“It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organised searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time.”
Deutsche Welle...
- 8/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Taliban fighters looking to exact revenge against journalists affiliated with Western media on Thursday shot dead the relative of an Afghan journalist for German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (Dw) who had left the country. They also injured another at his home in Western Afghanistan.
Dw Director General Peter Limbourg has confirmed the vendetta and called on the German government to step up efforts to bring journalists working with Western media to safety.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” Limbourg said in a statement.
“It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time!”
Dw has said it won’t reveal the name of...
Dw Director General Peter Limbourg has confirmed the vendetta and called on the German government to step up efforts to bring journalists working with Western media to safety.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” Limbourg said in a statement.
“It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time!”
Dw has said it won’t reveal the name of...
- 8/20/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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