‘I am Losing Hope’ Says Afghan Journalist Trying to Flee to Safety

WASHINGTON - Afghan journalists say they are living in fear and are frustrated by the slow and complicated process of finding safety in a new country. Reporter asks Mujahid: this seat you are sitting in right now Meenapal sat there last week. You claimed responsibility for his killing. Was this just about power?He says the war was declared by Afghan gov which had publicly announced prep for 6 months fighting.

“I am very disappointed,” a journalist who worked with an international media outlet told VOA. “I do not know what will happen to me. I really fear for my life.” The journalist, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, says she and her family left Herat a day before it fell to the Taliban. Before that, fighters had been threatening her via phone and in person. The journalist moved to Kabul. But that too has fallen.