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95% Afghan Journalists Can’t Practise Free Press

As per the latest reports, another survey has uncovered that 95% of Afghan journalists can’t cover occasions freely and furthermore have an issue of getting to data.

Journalists Can’t Gather Data

Afghanistan’s National Journalists’ Union directed the review, which was delivered here on Sunday, across every one of the 34 regions of the country during which 500 media persons were addressed, Khaama Press revealed.

As indicated by the survey, 90% of the journalists are dealing with major issues in gathering data as there is no particular law of admittance to the data after the Taliban took over Afghanistan last August.

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The survey additionally found that 30% of the journalists think that it is hard to talk with Taliban specialists, while 50% said that they have issues while addressing the overall population.

Masroor Lutfi, top of the Union, said 90% of the ones reviewed imagine that media is controlled in Afghanistan by the Taliban specialists. The Union additionally said in the study that it doesn’t have an authoritative archive and rule for media inclusion set by the Taliban, Khaama Press revealed.

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It said that during the beyond 20 years there was an authoritative archive for the exercises of media in Afghanistan that had worked with media inclusion and admittance to data.

“Nonattendance of an authoritative archive and rule is a not kidding issue that has made individuals main stories without anyone else and in light of their inclinations. We can’t address occurrences that happen to journalists until we have a rule by the Taliban,” Lutfi said.

Journalists Face Breakdown Of News Sources

Journalists accept that the absence of an archive and rules will prompt the breakdown of Afghan news sources. They said that after the Taliban takeover, the existence of Afghan journalists is deteriorating step by step and more limitations are being forced on admittance to data.

More than 70% of Afghan news sources have shut because of monetary hardships after the Taliban takeover.

 

 

 

 

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