{"id":12634,"date":"2025-07-21T01:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:18:34","slug":"the-publication-of-live-images-in-sar-i-pul-was-also-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/the-publication-of-live-images-in-sar-i-pul-was-also-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"The publication of live images in Sar-i-Pul was also banned."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12632\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sare-poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The publication of live images in Sar-i-Pul was also banned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Following the Taliban&#8217;s widespread media restrictions, Sar-i-Pul province has officially joined the list of areas where the publication of live images is banned;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The decision has raised concerns about the systematic suppression of freedom of expression.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Afghanistan Press Center announced on Sunday that the Taliban&#8217;s Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil Department has banned the broadcast of live images in Sar-i-Pul and the province&#8217;s national television has become a radio station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the report, other local media outlets are also not allowed to publish live images even on their official social media pages. With this move, Sar-i-Pul is the 20th province of Afghanistan to be officially subject to this type of media censorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Afghanistan Press Center strongly criticized the Taliban&#8217;s decision, calling it against the fundamental principles of freedom of expression and free media, warning that the restrictions would severely damage people&#8217;s access to free, transparent and factual information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban, based on their own interpretation of the law of enjoining good and forbidding evil, consider the publication of images of human beings &#8220;illegal&#8221; and are expanding this strict policy across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This comes as the country&#8217;s media community, especially in the provinces, is under increasing pressure; The media space, once a symbol of dynamism and freedom, is now unprecedentedly subject to enforced silence and self-censorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of live images in Sar-i-Pul was also banned. Following the Taliban&#8217;s widespread media restrictions, Sar-i-Pul province has officially joined the list of areas where the publication of live images is banned; The decision has raised concerns about the systematic suppression of freedom of expression. The Afghanistan Press Center announced on Sunday that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}