An Afghan ladies’s radio station will resume broadcasting after the Taliban lifted its suspension, which was imposed over alleged cooperation with an abroad TV channel, reported AP.
Radio Begum, which launched on Worldwide Girls’s Day in March 2021—5 months earlier than the Taliban seized energy—confirmed on Saturday that it had been granted permission to restart operations. The station’s content material is produced totally by Afghan ladies and focuses on points affecting them.
The Taliban’s Data and Tradition Ministry acknowledged that Radio Begum had “repeatedly requested” to renew operations and was allowed to take action after pledging to stick to sure situations. “The suspension was lifted after the station made commitments to authorities,” the ministry stated in a press release issued Saturday night time, as reported by AP.
The assertion added that Radio Begum dedicated to conducting broadcasts “in accordance with the rules of journalism and the laws of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and to keep away from any violations sooner or later.”
Struggles for press freedom underneath Taliban rule
For the reason that Taliban’s return to energy, ladies have been systematically excluded from training past grade six, varied types of employment, and plenty of public areas. The station’s sister satellite tv for pc channel, Begum TV, operates from France, broadcasting instructional content material for Afghan college students from grades seven to 12—topics that the Taliban have banned for ladies in Afghanistan.
The Taliban initially didn’t specify which international TV channel Radio Begum had allegedly collaborated with. Nonetheless, in its newest assertion, the ministry talked about hyperlinks with “international sanctioned media shops.”
Afghanistan has skilled a dramatic decline in press freedom underneath the Taliban. Many journalists, particularly ladies, have misplaced their jobs because the Taliban tighten management over the media.
(With inputs from AP)
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