One of the publishers of Kabul city was violently arrested

Sources inform about the inspection of bookstores in Kabul city and the arrest of one of the publishers from Pol-e Sorkh area in Kabul.

Qasim Farzam, the manager for Wazha Publishing organization, wrote that today, Wednesday, the people affiliated with the caretaker government visited the Pol-e Sorkh, which is one of the important centers of publishing and bookstores in Kabul city, and inspected the bookstores, and at the same time they took a large number the books with them, they also arrested one of the publishers with violence, beating and throwing a black bag over his head who had prevented these people.

The sale of books and cultural products had a good boom in the past, and a large number of professors, students, educators and other citizens used to buy many books from Pol-e Sorkh bookstores every day, but after the fall of the republican government and the establishment of the caretaker government, there was an unprecedented stagnation the bookstores faced and even a number of publishers have stopped their activities.

Meanwhile, not long ago, the Ministry of Higher Education issued an official letter and demanded to check and purge all the libraries of private universities from the existence of political books, books that contradict Hanafi jurisprudence and books that raise ideological problems.