RASC News Agency: Following the arrest of Iranian photographer Mohammad Hussain Walaiati by the Taliban group at the Kabul airport, Hussain Amir Abdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, informed the Tasnim news agency of intensive diplomatic and consular efforts to free the photographer from the custody of the Taliban group.
Last night, Friday, August 25, in a message on X social media, he expressed hope that Walaiati would be handed over to the Iranian embassy in Kabul in the next few hours.
The Taliban group at Kabul Airport arrested Walaiati, who is a photographer and editor of Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, last week on Saturday, August 19 while returning to Iran.
According to the Tasnim news agency, the security forces of the Taliban group have arrested the photographer of this media without any explanation or clear reason.
This is despite the fact that the Taliban group has recently arrested several journalists of the domestic media of Afghanistan.
The Center of Afghanistan Journalists has announced that currently, 12 journalists and media workers of the country are imprisoned in the prisons of the Taliban group.
It should be noted that with the Taliban group regaining control over the country, restrictions and violence against citizens, especially women and the media, have increased.
Christian Mihar, CEO of Reporters Without Borders, said recently: “There is fear and insecurity among Afghanistan media workers under the control of the Taliban group.”
Meanwhile, reports from different parts of the country regarding the functioning of the media indicate that the growing pressure of the Taliban group, especially by the intelligence of this group, has forced many media to self-censor.
