The Taliban denied sending threats to the journalists.
A signboard with the warning"Photography and Video recording forbidden" is displayed along a street in Kabul on Oct. 22, 2024.As Jahanzeb Wesa fled toward the Pakistani border in the middle of the night, he wondered if his career defending human rights would help protect him now that he was a refugee himself.
In Pakistan, unable to legally work and threatened with deportation through government ultimatums and face-to-face interactions, some Afghan journalists applied for visas from countries that promised to help Afghan refugees.In the meantime, their prospects in Pakistan are dire, several told ABC News.Several Afghan journalists living in Pakistan told ABC News that their fear of deportation is omnipresent.
Those disruptions to daily life don't appear to be unique to journalists. A 2023 Human Rights Watch report declared a "humanitarian crisis" of Pakistani authorities committing widespread abuses, including mass detentions and property seizures, against Afghans in Pakistan. Over a month and a half, the report said, Pakistani authorities deported 20,000 Afghans and coerced over 350,000 more to leave on their own.
Wesa applied for an Australian humanitarian visa on Jan. 4, 2022, six months after he arrived in Pakistan. He supplemented his application with support letters from Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International and other nongovernmental organizations stating his life was at risk, he told ABC News.
"Day by day, I'm faced with depression and health issues," he said. "My only hope is that Australia will save my life."
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