{"id":2335,"date":"2015-10-12T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:53:54","slug":"taliban-threatens-attacks-on-2-afghan-tv-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/taliban-threatens-attacks-on-2-afghan-tv-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban threatens attacks on 2 Afghan TV networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement on Monday, the group declared Tolo and 1TV, privately run news and entertainment stations, as legitimate &#8220;military targets&#8221; and labeled them &#8220;propaganda networks.\u201d The two networks are known for their critical views of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (Taliban) from now on does not recognize Tolo and 1TV as media outlets but designates them as military targets due to their disrespectful and hostile actions,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The group further said none of the employees, anchors, offices, news teams and reporters of the two channels have immunity.<\/p>\n<p>The channels said in recent reports that Taliban militants had raped women at a hostel in Kunduz, which briefly fell to the group late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International also said the Taliban committed gang rapes and mass murder during their occupation of Kunduz that lasted three days.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to the statement, Saad Mohseni, who heads Tolo, said, &#8220;Proud to say that our people will always report without bias and fear.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We will not be intimidated by any group,&#8221; he added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement on Monday, the group declared Tolo and 1TV, privately run news and entertainment stations, as legitimate &#8220;military targets&#8221; and labeled them &#8220;propaganda networks.\u201d The two networks are known for their critical views of the Taliban. &#8220;The (Taliban) from now on does not recognize Tolo and 1TV as media outlets but designates them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294,291,366],"tags":[795,391,610,796,797],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anti-terror-alert","category-asia-and-oceania","category-hra","tag-2-afghan","tag-attacks","tag-taliban","tag-threatens","tag-tv-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}