Farahnaz Forotan
| Farahnaz Forotan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | فرحناز فروتن |
| Born | August 9, 1992 Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Afghan |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Afghanistan |
| 🏫 Education | International relations |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist and human rights' activist |
| 🏢 Organization | Ariana & ATN NEWS |
| Notable work | Investigative documentary on the lives of Taliban prisoners |
| Television | ATN |
Farahnaz Forotan (Persian: فرحناز فروتن, born 9 August 1992) is an Afghan journalist and women's rights activist.[1][2] She moved to Iran together with her family during the Mujahidden regime. Forotan returned back to Afghanistan in 2001, but took refuge in France in 2020 after being included on a Taliban hit list.[3][4]
Early life
In 1996, when Farahnaz was three and the Taliban arrived in her home town, Kabul, she and her family migrated to Iran due to the civil war in Afghanistan.[3] Farahnaz and her sisters were denied an education by the authorities due to their immigrant or refugee status. She was able to continue school from grades one through four, in a private Afghan School called "Sayyed Jamaluddin Afghan" with very limited funding, staff, and facilities.[5]
Career
Forotan began working with a private television in Kabul, Afghanistan, "Norren TV" at a young age. She continued working for the same station for two consecutive years. She has traveled around the country and abroad to correspond on Afghanistan related stories. Farahnaz is the first female journalist that reported from Sangeen district of Helmand, a dangerous war zone and haven of the Taliban.
She first rose to prominence with an investigative documentary on the lives of Taliban prisoners, which dissected their thought-process and their reasons behind targeting the Afghan and international forces, along with that of the general public in Afghanistan.[6][7]
Farahnaz Forotan is working with Ariana Television Network[8] and she is a student at a private university in Kabul. She was awarded "Journalist in the country" by Afghanistan's Free Media Association in 2015. She is the youngest female journalist in the country to have been a recipient of the highest national Afghan award from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's government, at the age of twenty-three.[9][10]
In 2019 and 2020, Forotan conducted a social media campaign and travelled the country collecting testimonies from women, in an attempt to prevent the Taliban from using the Afghan peace process to roll back freedoms for women that were acquired since the fall of the Taliban.[3][11] The testimonies were used to lobby Afghan leaders, foreign diplomats and civil society groups, and Forotan's campaign had the backing of UN Women Afghanistan.[3] In 2019, The New York Times reported that her social media campaign, known as #myredline, "implores women to stand up for their rights."[12] On April 4, 2019, Reuters reported she "launched the movement by declaring that her pen, symbolic of her profession, was her red line."[13] On April 21, 2019, Forotan told AFP that President Ashraf Ghani had tweeted that women's rights were a "red line" in the peace process.[14]
On 9 November 2020, Farahnaz received a call from the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee, which informed her that according to their information, obtained by foreign intelligence services, she was included on the Taliban's blacklist of people and that she could be killed soon, which forced her to flee and take refuge in Paris, France.[4][15][16]
References
- ↑ Wazhmah Osman (2020). Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. University of Illinois Press. Search this book on
- ↑ Omid, Jawid. "Tale of an Afghan female journalist". english.sina.com. English Sina. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "'Peace where rights aren't trampled': Afghan women's demands ahead of Taliban talks". The Guardian. 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2021-02-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Golshiri, Ghazal (2021-01-23). "Farahnaz Forotan, star de la télé afghane contrainte à l'exil". Le Monde (in français). Retrieved 2021-02-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Madanyat, Rahe. "فرح و راه دشوار خبرنگاری". rahemadanyat.com. بانوان موفق. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ احمدیار, نجیب الله -. "چرا زنان افغان با هویت مستعار در فیسبوک می آیند؟". واشنگتن. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ "گزارش فرحناز فروتن". Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ Omid, Jawid. "Tale of an Afghan female journalist". english.sina.com. English Sina. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Naziry, Shirin (June 30, 2015). "The Voice of Afghanistan Women: فرحناز فروتن ژورنالست موفق ونامدار کشور". The Voice of Afghanistan Women. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ خبر گزاری, اطلس (October 1, 2016). "مشکلات فیس بوکی زنان افغانی" (in فارسی). خبر گزاری اطلس. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ Kermani, Secunder (September 7, 2020). "Taliban peace talks: What to expect from the new round?". BBC News. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Zucchino, David; Faizi, Fatima (May 25, 2019). "In Kabul's Liberating Cafes, 'Women Make the Culture Here, Not Men'". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Hakimi, Orooj (April 4, 2019). "Women singers test limits, signal Afghanistan's changing times". Reuters. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ "Cyclist Kobra Salim takes part in #MyRedLine campaign". Deccan Chronicle. AFP. April 21, 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Nossiter, Adam (2021-01-17). "'There Is No Safe Area': In Kabul, Fear Has Taken Over". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Afghanistan: Journalists, Reporters Displaced by Surge of Targeted Assassinations, Killings". The Khaama Press News Agency. 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-02-13. Unknown parameter
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External links
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