UNAMA: Taliban's increasing pressure on Afghanistan's private media is increasing day by day

Farida Sun Aug 2025 3 months ago 545

According to UNAMA, these restrictions are a combination of economic pressures and orders and directives from the Taliban. Widespread financial difficulties have forced some private media outlets to lay off between one-third and half of their staff, a matter that has significantly reduced the capacity and quality of information dissemination.


The report states that the Taliban labels media outlets that report on human rights conditions and violations as “enemies of Islam.” The United Nations, referencing an article from media affiliated with the Taliban, emphasized that such a perspective directly targets freedom of expression.


UNAMA also noted that the Taliban not only exerts pressure on official media but also monitors the activities of social media users and, in some cases, has detained them. According to the report, in the past month alone, the group has detained at least seven journalists.


UNAMA has warned that the continuation of this trend has severely limited the Afghan people’s access to free and independent information and has placed the country’s media landscape on the brink of complete collapse.


This comes at a time when, with their return to power, the Taliban has imposed increasing pressure on the media and has repeatedly detained, tortured, and imprisoned journalists and media workers.

The office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its latest quarterly report has warned that the activities of private media in Afghanistan are becoming increasingly restricted with each passing day, and the information space in the country has been unprecedentedly constrained.

FARIDA AMINI

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