Title	Media	Job	Type of Incident	Assailant/Arresting Authority	Date	Location	Incident Details
Anonymous	-	reporter	arrest	GDI	Jan 24	Charikar	-
Anonymous	-	reporter	arrest	Ministry of information and culture	Jan 18	Kabul	-
Anonymous	A private TV channel	presenter	Threat of arrest	Ministry of information and culture	Jan 18	Kabul	-
Ezzatullah Zawab	Mina Magazine	Editor	arrest	Taliban police	Jan 24	Kabul	Ezatullah Zawab told the AFJC that he was detained on January 24, 2024, while traveling from Kabul to the eastern city of Jalalabad. He was accused of carrying and using alcohol and drugs. Zawab stated that he was released from prison on May 21, after 117 days of detention, when a court in Kabul found him not guilty of the charges against him. Previously, in 2002, he had been summoned and interrogated by the GDI for writing and publishing a poem on his Facebook page that criticized the Taliban's ban on girls' higher education. At that time, he was compelled to remove the poem from his page.
Anonymous	-	Reporter	Arrest	GDI	Jan 20	Kunduz	-
Anonymous	-	Reporter	Arrest	GDI	Jan 20	Kunduz	-
Ehsan Akbari	Japan's Kyodo news agency	reporter	arrest	GDI	Jan 18	Kabul	-
Abdulhaq Hamidi	Gardesh-e-Ittelaat News Agency	reporter	arrest	GDI	Jan 18	Kabul	-
Ahmad Jawad Resooli	Gardesh-e-Ittelaat News Agency	reporter	arrest	GDI	Jan 18	Kabul	-
Independent Media	Independent Media	-	Threat	Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah	Jan 18	Kabul, provinces	Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah, Taliban acting minister of information and cultur, issued a letter urging the media to avoid using "foreign terms" to safeguard the country's "national identity."