Reporters Without Borders: Afghanistan has become one of the largest centers for the expulsion of journalists in the world.

Reporters Without Borders: Afghanistan has become one of the largest centers for the expulsion of journalists in the world.

Reporters Without Borders announced on the eve of World Refugee Day that Afghanistan has become one of the largest centers for the expulsion of journalists in the world.

The organization said that since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, at least 677 Afghan journalists have left the country with the organization’s support; a figure that constitutes nearly half of the exiled journalists supported by Reporters Without Borders.

According to the organization, widespread restrictions, systematic media censorship, security threats and arbitrary detention of journalists, and media repression have forced hundreds of journalists to emigrate, and their exodus continues.

However, currently, more than 160 journalists and media activists, along with their family members, are waiting for safe departure from this country in Pakistan so that they can continue their work and media activities away from any oppression, torture, censorship, and discrimination and achieve a peaceful life with their family members.

This is despite the fact that nearly five years have passed since the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, but specific laws that can be approved by international organizations and institutions supporting journalists and the media have not yet been signed, and the Taliban continue with their same strict and cruel methods to control the Afghan media community.

Report: Shahpour Nayebzada