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The 51% - Journalism and resistance under Taliban rule

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 155 words · By Annette Young; Stéphanie CHEVAL; Jennifer BEN BRAHIM; Clémence LEBOUCHER
Journalism and Exile Human Rights in Afghanistan Gender-based Oppression
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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that Afghanistan, which recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Afghanistan, which recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Afghanistan, which recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power.”
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Multiple independent sources (Deutsche Welle, web search results) explicitly state that the Taliban returned to power five years ago, with specific references to the August 2021 takeover and the fifth anniversary occurring in 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to itself by the name of the government it operates, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the ruling government and r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban insurgent group and allied militants conducted a military offensive in 2021 that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing conflict waged by armed factions loyal to the defunct Islamic Republic of Afghanistan against the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_insurgency_in_Afgha…
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Claim 2: “Together with British-American journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman, she has written "The Vanishing Girl of Kabul"”
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Three independent web sources (including Goodreads and a book description) confirm that Zahra Joya and Amie Ferris-Rotman co-authored 'The Vanishing Girl of Kabul'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Vanishing Girl of Kabul is Zahra’s powerful story of survival, resistance and betrayal. Co-written with award-winning journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman, a longtime friend of both Zahra and Afghanistan…
https://www.amieferrisrotman.com/book
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web search NEUTRAL — Zahra Joya (author) , Amie Ferris-Rotman (with). Sign in to write a review. Price: £25.00.'Joya writes with great insight and compassion about Afghanistan's girls and women. This book is a unique and …
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-vanishing-girl-of-kabul…
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web search NEUTRAL — Zahra Joya, Amie Ferris-Rotman (Other). 4.69. 36 ratings12 reviews. Want to Read. Rate this book. When the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Zahra Joya disguised herself as a boy simply to…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242492126-the-vanishing-…
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Claim 3: “British-American journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman”
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Multiple sources, including the Pulitzer Center and Amie Ferris-Rotman's own professional bio, explicitly describe her as a British-American journalist.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist for Foreign Policy magazine based in Moscow.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amie-ferris-rottman
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web search NEUTRAL — Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist based in London. She is currently global news editor at New Lines Magazine.
https://www.amieferrisrotman.com/about
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web search NEUTRAL — Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist based in London. She is currently global news editor at New Lines Magazine.
https://pulitzercenter.org/people/amie-ferris-rotman
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Claim 4: “Annette Young meets Afghan journalist Zahra Joya, who fled Kabul in August 2021, when the city fell to the Taliban.”
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Wikipedia and The Guardian confirm Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist who escaped the Taliban in August 2021.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to itself by the name of the government it operates, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the ruling government and r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban hold strict standards for women's behaviour and dress, based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Hanafi jurisprudence which is enforced through surveillance and force. Human rights g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_women_by_the_Tali…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban. In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. Since the US troops withdrawal fr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Afghanistan
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Claim 5: “Now living in the UK, she continues to report on the lives and struggles of Afghanistan's women and girls.”
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The Guardian explicitly states she has been living in London since her escape, and Wikipedia confirms she runs her media outlet from exile.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Zahra Joya (Dari/Hazaragi: زهرا جویا) is an ethnic Hazara journalist from Afghanistan. She is the founder of Rukhshana Media, an outlet in Dari and English which she runs from exile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Joya
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State, becoming brides of Islamic State fighters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brides_of_the_Islamic_State
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai (born 1963) is an Afghan former politician who served as a senior member of the Afghan Taliban and the country's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 7 September 2021 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Mohammad_Abbas_Stanikzai
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