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(*7*)Right after the Taliban banned Voice of The united states (VOA) broadcasts from terrestrial tv, the US authorities-funded news company has introduced a 24/7 immediate-to-residence satellite-sent tv channel for Afghanistan, neighborhood media claimed.(*6*)(*7*)The channel carries uncensored news and info in each the Pashto and Dari languages of the place, in accordance to Voice of The united states (VOA).(*6*)(*7*)VOA’s plans had been purchased off affiliated tv stations in Afghanistan productive on March 27, as portion of a wide ban on content material regarded as undermining Taliban insurance policies, such as prohibiting gals from anchoring newscasts with males.(*6*)(*7*)VOA’s new Television set stream, recognized as “VOA Afghanistan,” is on the Yahsat Y-1A satellite (fifty two.2 levels East), Transponder twelve (downlink frequency eleven.938 GHz), Channel 469. The Yahsat satellite is Afghanistan’s most common system, guaranteeing the Afghan viewers will have obtain to VOA’s programming regardless of the Taliban censorship, claimed VOA.(*6*)(*7*)”Afghanistan is now a single of the most repressive media marketplaces in the world,” stated Performing VOA Director Yolanda Lopez.(*6*)(*7*)”Even with the Taliban’s try to stop push independence, VOA News stands by its Afghan viewers with credible and authoritative news and info,” Lopez extra.(*6*)(*7*)The new VOA Afghanistan satellite stream involves its common “Television set Ashna” newscasts, its women’s demonstrate “Etesal,” viewer get in touch with-in programming, and programming from Radio Absolutely free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azadi radio. Added programming is prepared, such as leisure displays to fill a void in Afghanistan, exactly where neighborhood channels can’t air audio plans, claimed VOA.(*6*)(*7*)It even further claimed that the VOA satellite channel has been in progress given that August, prior to the slide of Afghanistan’s elected authorities. The channel is also obtainable on YouTube and on VOA’s Pashto and Dari language sites.(*6*)(*7*)Domestic and intercontinental critics say media and independence of speech have worsened less than Taliban rule in Afghanistan.(*6*)(*7*)Afghan journalists have been consistently detained and subjected to violence by stability forces. In December, Reporters With out Borders (RSF) launched a study, exhibiting that at minimum forty for each cent of Afghan media shops have disappeared and a lot more than eighty for each cent of gals journalists dropped their work given that the Taliban takeover of the place.(*6*)(*7*)Hundreds of journalists have also still left Afghanistan given that August for anxiety of Taliban reprisals or mainly because of difficulties related with practising their occupation less than the new rulers.(*6*)(*7*)Additional than 6,four hundred journalists and media personnel have dropped their work given that August fifteen when the Taliban seized management of the Afghan funds, Kabul, in accordance to the RSF study.(*6*)
