100 Women: Byline Afghanistan

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, eight out of 10 women journalists have stopped working. The few female journalists still working are subject to all kinds of restrictions, including no access to official sources, no travelling without a chaperone, as well as abuses such as harassment and low pay.

Previously, approximately 17 percent of accredited journalists working in Afghanistan were women - so where have they all gone, and what are they doing now? The BBC’s Sana Safi investigates.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:04.7	I'm Sanaafi.
0:09.6	The Taliban is in control of Afghanistan, and Western countries are scrambling.
0:16.8	It's the night of August 14th, 2021.
0:21.6	Shabnam Dharan is a presenter on Afghanistan's state news channel.
0:29.9	My story, look, I just present my news bulletin in the evening.
0:37.5	The environment was very dark, quiet.
0:41.7	The last American troops are pulling out of Afghanistan.
0:45.8	The Taliban holds most of the country.
0:48.9	And they're at the gates of the capital city, Kabul.
0:54.5	On that time, I just told my colleagues,
0:57.6	I don't want to leave the office for tonight
1:00.3	because I don't know what will happen tomorrow.
1:02.9	I want to be here.
1:05.3	Shabnam's used to danger.
1:07.3	She survived two suicide attacks
1:09.4	while working as a journalist.
1:11.4	But her colleagues persuade her she must go home.
1:15.7	The next morning, she wakes up and turns on her phone.
1:20.8	Kabul has fallen to the Taliban.
1:27.4	Online I see some of the Taliban and they just share their videos.
1:34.3	One video stands out. It's recorded in the State News Channel studio.
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