Afghanistan’s journalism under the Taliban

In the two years since the Taliban retook control in Afghanistan, independent journalism has gone either underground or into exile. Host Carol Hills examines the state of press freedom in Afghanistan today with Afghan journalist Zaki Daryabi, who fled Kabul in 2021 and continues his work as editor of the investigative newspaper Etilaatroz from an office just outside Washington, DC.

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