{"id":24054,"date":"2026-10-15T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/unama-taliban-pressure-shia-community-independent-media-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:45:25","slug":"unama-taliban-pressure-shia-community-independent-media-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/unama-taliban-pressure-shia-community-independent-media-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UNAMA says Taliban have increased pressure on Shia community and independent media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its quarterly report that the Taliban administration has increased pressure on the Shia community and independent media, a trend it said has further restricted religious freedom and media activity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Taliban administration in September arrested several employees of Khatam al-Nabiyyin University and the Khatam al-Anbia Cultural Complex, and revoked the operating licence of Khatam al-Nabiyyin University in Kabul and Ghazni. Seven service and religious centres linked to the Shia community, including a clinic, two educational centres, a sports club, two religious schools and a mosque, were also closed.<\/p>\n<p>UNAMA added that the activities of Radio Eslah, the Lapiz media centre, Rah-e-Farda TV and Tamadon TV have also been suspended. The mission says journalists in Afghanistan continue to face arbitrary arrests, equipment confiscation and security threats.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, UNAMA&#8217;s report points to intensified restrictions on the Shia and Hazara communities, religious freedom and independent media in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNAMA says the Taliban have tightened restrictions on Afghanistan&#8217;s Shia community and independent media, curbing religious freedom and press activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054","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=24054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}