Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, eight out of 10 women journalists have stopped working. The few female journalists still working are subject to all kinds of restrictions, including no access to official sources, no travelling without a chaperone, as well as abuses such as harassment and low pay. Previously, approximately 17 percent of accredited journalists working in Afghanistan were women - so where have they all gone, and what are they doing now? The BBC’s Sana Safi investigates.
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I'm Sana Safi.
The Taliban is in control of Afghanistan and Western countries are scrambling to get.
It's the night of August 14, 2021.
Shabnam Dauran is a presenter on Afghanistan's state news channel.
My story, look, I just present my news bulletin in the evening.
The environment was very dark, quiet.
The last American troops are pulling out of Afghanistan.
The Taliban holds most of the country and they're at the gates of the capital city, Kabul.
On that time.
I just told my colleagues I don't want to leave the office for tonight because I don't know what will happen tomorrow.
I want to be here.
Shabnam is used to danger.
She survived two suicide attacks while working as a journalist.
But her colleagues persuade her she must go home.