Afgane women’s radio station will resume emissions after Taliban suspension

A Afgane women’s radio station will resume Transmissions after the Taliban raised their suspension for alleged cooperation with a TV channel.

Radio Begum was launched by International Women’s Day in March 2021, five months before Taliban took the power Against the background Chaotic withdrawal Of us and NATO troops.

The contents of the station is produced entirely by Afghan women. His sister Satellite Channel, Begum TV, operates from France and broadcasts programs that cover the Afghan school program from the seventh to the 12th. Taliban have forbidden education for women and girls in the country beyond the sixth grade.

In a statement issued on Saturday night, the Ministry of Information and Taliban Culture said Radio Begum “repeatedly” to restart the operations and that the suspension was raised after the station made commitments for the authorities.

The station was hired to carry out transmissions “in accordance with the principles of journalism and the regulations of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan and to avoid any violations in the future,” he added.

The ministry did not elaborate what are those principles and regulations. Radio Begum confirmed that the ministry has given permission to resume broadcast. He did not give additional details.

Since taking over their Taliban have The women excluded From education, many types of work and public spaces. Journalists, especially women, lost the Taliban job Tighten -and tight on the media.

In the 2024 press freedom index from reporters without borders, Afghanist occupies 178 out of 180 countries. A year before that, it was ranked on 152.

The Ministry of Information did not initially identify the TV channel with which it assumed that Radio Begum worked. But the Saturday statement mentioned the collaboration with “Mass -foreign sanctioned media”.