Team News Riveting
Soon after taking over Kabul, the Taliban fighters are desperately looking for a journalist from Deutsche Welle, a German public state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
The rebels have reportedly shot dead one member of his family and severely injured another, the broadcaster said, adding that three more of its journalists had had their homes raided.
The Islamist militant movement had promised it would allow free media – banned when it was last in power from 1996 to 2001 – when it gave its first news conference on Tuesday since capturing the capital Kabul. Some Afghan journalists have also reported having been beaten and their homes raided since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on Sunday.
Deutsche Welle (DW) said the Taliban had been doing a house-to-house search to find the journalist, who it said was now working in Germany and did not name. Other relatives were able to flee and are on the run now, it said.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban … is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” DW Director-General Peter Limbourg said late on Thursday, urging the government in Berlin to help.
