Category: Arts & Culture

Salam Watandar baggs two awards

KABUL (SW) – Salam Watandar has bagged two awards for the year as the Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media facilitated journalists in various categories through a competitive process.

Restrictions mount on local journalists in provinces

MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) – A number of local media professionals in the provinces have expressed concern that with the advent of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, restrictions on local journalists and media work have increased.

Valentine’s Day goes unnoticed

KABUL (SW) – This year’s Valentine Day celebrations were muted as youth avoided marking it in the public in the wake of the rise to power by the Islamic Emirate.

RSF condemns attacks on journalists and media outlets

KABUL (SW) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the surge in threats, summonses for interrogation and arbitrary arrests to which journalists and media outlets have been subjected for the past two months in Afghanistan.

Arresting Jalal described as curbs on freedom of speech

KABUL (SW) – The Federation of Journalists and Media of Afghanistan called the detention of Faizullah Jalal, a professor at Kabul University, by the forces of the Islamic Emirate as a curb on freedom of expression, and called the continuation of such detentions contrary to human rights values and laws.