Under the Taliban, it’s harder than ever to be an Afghan journalist
ISLAMABAD — The agonies come easy and frequently for Afghan intelligencer Taqi Daryabi.
When they do, the 22- time-old journalist for the Afghan review Etilaatroz is incontinently transported back to a moist room in a Taliban- run police station, where a group of former fighters severely beat him and his coworker Nematullah Naqdi last month for covering a women's kick in Kabul.
"All of them started beating me with whatever they had in their hands — with lashes, bludgeons, with rubber, with wood,"says Daryabi, who's still in and out of the sanitarium for treatment of his incisions."With whatever torturing tool they had, they beat me until I passed out."
Naqdi, his coworker, has incompletely lost his vision from the beating he endured that day.
About 500 country miles down, in the western m...