The latest directive adds to a long list of challenges that Afghanistan's leading independent news channel has contended with over the past nine months, including seeing more than 90% of its staff flee the country following the Taliban's arrival
The devastating directive came on Wednesday from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which replaced the country's Ministry of Women's Affairs after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August. In the newsroom, headquartered in central Kabul, two presenters break down in tears in conversation with CNN. "They want women to be removed from the screen.
"All of my reporters that used to work in this room — all presenters, male and female — left," Sapai tells CNN in an interview in his office."And all the producers... All human resources working at TOLOnews left. At management level,"I stood alone," Sapai says,"I was only thinking how to keep the screen alive [and] not to go dark... I can't believe I did it.
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