{"id":21282,"date":"2026-09-07T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-journalists-centre-condemns-radio-sada-e-eslah-closure\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:45:16","slug":"afghanistan-journalists-centre-condemns-radio-sada-e-eslah-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-journalists-centre-condemns-radio-sada-e-eslah-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Journalists Centre Condemns Closure of Radio Sada-e Eslah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Journalists Centre has condemned the closure of the Radio Sada-e Eslah office and the suspension of the media outlet\u2019s activities, and has called for it to be reopened. The organisation says the move is a sign of intensifying pressure by the Taliban administration on independent media and of shrinking press freedom in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, 16 Sonbola, the centre said Radio Sada-e Eslah was shut on 5 Asad this year by staff from the Taliban administration\u2019s Ministry of Justice, five days after it marked its 18th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Afghanistan Journalists Centre, the Taliban administration\u2019s Ministry of Justice said the media outlet was closed because of its affiliation with the &#8220;Association for the Social Reform and Development of Afghanistan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Journalists Centre is among the institutions in the country that support media freedom and it takes positions and documents cases related to restrictions on the media and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan Journalists Centre condemns the Taliban closure of Radio Sada-e Eslah and calls for the station to reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}