Taliban detained three journalists on charges of broadcasting music and making phone calls to women

The Taliban have detained three journalists on charges of playing music and making phone calls to women in Khost.

The Afghanistan Journalists Center says three local journalists in Khost province in the east of the country have been detained by the Taliban on charges of broadcasting music and making phone calls to female listeners by the Taliban’s Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

In a statement on Thursday, April 15th, the center quoted local sources as saying that Ismail Saadat, a Radio Naz journalist, Wahidullah Masoom, a Radio Iqra journalist, and Ehsanullah Tassal, a Radio Sedaye Mardom journalist, were summoned and then detained by the Taliban’s Department of Promotion of Virtue in Khost province on Tuesday of this week.

The statement said that the directors of these radios had been summoned and these three journalists had gone on behalf of their directors and were detained. Taliban officials have not officially commented on the detention of these journalists yet.