Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a statement, has condemned the arbitrary arrest of journalists and media workers in Kabul by the Taliban and has called for their immediate release and an end to the group’s pressure on the media.

The Afghanistan Women’s Political Participation Network, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban regime’s return to power, in a statement described this day as a “black day” in the country’s history, saying that the past four years have brought the people of Afghanistan nothing but “oppression, fear, poverty, forced displacement, killing, imprisonment, torture, rape, humiliation, and injustice.”

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme says that in Afghanistan there are no educational, employment, or social and economic growth opportunities for women and girls who return from migration.

Radio Nasim’s broadcasts in the provinces of Daikundi and Bamyan have been suspended following the arrest of the station’s editor-in-chief and two journalists by the Taliban’s intelligence agency.