{"id":36842,"date":"2021-09-14T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/14\/talibans-return-a-catastrophe-for-journalism-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:30:05","slug":"talibans-return-a-catastrophe-for-journalism-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36842","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s return \u2018a catastrophe\u2019 for journalism in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of International Federation of Journalists says \u2018future is black\u2019 for 1,300 journalists still in country<\/p>\n<p>Journalism in Afghanistan is in danger of disappearing, according to the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifj.org\/\">International Federation of Journalists<\/a>, who said that reporters trying to continue working under the Taliban have been subjected to beatings and imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban don\u2019t want to make too many waves right now, but they will want to take control of everything, including the foreign press in Afghanistan,\u201d Anthony Bellanger, the IFJ secretary general, told the Guardian. \u201cAnd as often happens in such situations, foreign journalists will be considered agents of foreign governments. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/14\/talibans-return-a-catastrophe-for-journalism-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of International Federation of Journalists says \u2018future is black\u2019 for 1,300 journalists still in countryJournalism in Afghanistan is in danger of disappearing, according to the head of the International Federation of Journalists, who said that rep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,669,238,671,672,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions\/36843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}