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The Daily Beast Podcast

Afghan Women Say The Taliban Are Shooting People in the Night and Filming It

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Daily Beast reporter Diana Falzone reached out to a few different female reporters in Afghanistan to get their perspective on what is happening and what she heard from them is terrifying—from the Taliban beating people in the streets, including children, to allegedly going into homes in the middle of the night to shoot others. She relays their stories to Molly Jong-Fast on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the new abnormal. We thank you so much for being here.

0:50.4

Today we have an extra special guest with the Daily Beast Diana Fell Zone. And she's going to

0:55.0

talk to us about what's going on in Afghanistan with female reporters as well as the Taliban's

0:59.8

false perceptions that they're projecting out through the media. Hi Diana. Thank you so much for

1:04.8

having me Molly. I want to talk about the important work you're doing with women in Kabul. Let's

1:09.6

start with that. Yeah. One night I was just on social media and I was seeing so many of these

1:17.4

posts from the Afghan women that at the point had that point they were still working journalists.

1:23.7

They were still able to work even though Kabul just was taken over by the Taliban. I reached out to

1:30.3

to many that night because I just wanted to hear their stories and I kept plugging away until two

1:36.8

very courageous Afghan journalist female Afghan journalists who are living in Kabul have no

1:44.2

longer been able to go to work. One of them was sent a threatening letter by the Taliban saying

1:49.1

she was not to return. Another one has been an eyewitness to the violence that's been going on

1:56.4

there. They are in a complete state of hellish chaos trying to get to the airport. Some of them

2:04.2

have their documents. Others don't have visas. They said they never expected this to happen

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