Journalists in hiding to IPS: silencing women journalists, is silencing the voice of Afghan women
ZOFEEN EBRAHIM “IF I fall into the hands of the Taliban, not only me but my family will be killed,” said AB, 23*, who worked as a broadcast journalist for the past seven years and is a well-known face on the television screen. Speaking on WhatsApp from her hideout in a city close to the capital Kabul, she said the Taliban came looking for her and were asking about her whereabouts from her neighbours, who, in turn, warned her family. “The Taliban have started house-to-house search and when they could not find me, left a warning with our neighbours to…