Our colleague and friend Mortaza Behboudi remains a prisoner of the Taliban
France-based journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who has worked for Mediapart and major French broadcasters, notably on reporting missions to Afghanistan, has been detained in Kabul by the Taliban authorities since January 7th this year. The reporter, who holds dual French and Afghan nationality, turned 29 in April, in his prison cell. We call on the Taliban authorities for his release and freedom, and we will continue to do so until he is safely back among us.
Above: Mediapart's publishing editor Edwy Plenel details the plight of our colleague Mortaza Behboudi (in French).
Our colleague Mortaza Behboudi, who was aged two when his parents took him and his brother with them into exile in Iran, began his career as a photojournalist during the Iranian ‘Green Movement’ uprising in 2009. He was then aged 15. In 2012, he returned to his native Afghanistan, where he took up studies and developed his passion for journalism. But in 2015, when the Taliban and the so-called Islamic State group had created what he called information “black holes” across the country, he was forced to flee Kabul.
