What Next: The Taliban vs. the Press

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Afghan women and LGBTQ+ people immediately felt the impact of the Taliban’s return to power last year. But journalists trying to tell their stories could face intense and even violent backlash from the extremist group—like what happened to Lynne O’Donnell. Guest: Lynne O’Donnell, columnist at Foreign Policy and former Afghanistan bureau chief for Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	Getting into Afghanistan right now is a little weird.
0:40.7	Journalist Lino Donald, she's used to weird.
0:43.1	She's been a foreign correspondent for years.
0:45.3	But when she made plans to go to Kabul back in July, even she found it weird.
0:57.0	Take getting her visa.
0:58.8	Lynn went to the Afghan Embassy in London, told them her plans.
1:04.2	But the embassy, it doesn't have any contact with the Taliban government.
1:10.0	She says it's still flying the old flag from before the Taliban took over.
1:19.6	And so it wasn't like they sent my application to Kabul to the foreign ministry to issue
1:25.6	me with a media visa.
1:28.2	Hold it, that's so strange.
1:29.4	So the embassy just operates, it's like a zombie embassy operating from pre-tallaban times.
1:36.8	Yes, and most of them around the world are, and the one in the US has been closed down.
1:43.8	When they gave you that visa where they were like, sure, if you want to go, well, exactly.
1:48.9	But the, sure, if you want to go, was accompanied with an affidavit that I signed to say that
1:54.4	I knew that I was taking a risk in going and that I accepted the risk and that the embassy
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