Journalist Bashir Hatif was detained by Taliban’s intelligence agency on April 3, in Kabul, and was later released after six hours of insults and humiliation, reports afintl.com. Hatif is currently a board member of Afghanistan’s Journalists Organisations and Media Federation. He had previously criticised the Taliban's treatment of the media in a television interview. He has been actively defending journalists' rights within Afghanistan for the past two and a half years.