; and (2) Yalda Moaiery, a prominent female photojournalist who was among the first journalists to cover the nationwide protests in Tehran, and she was arrested by antiriot police despite having press credentials, and was later sentenced to 6 years in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the system and acting against national security ; Whereas a 2022 report by the International Federation of Journalists and the Afghanistan National Journalists Union shows that at least 318 media outlets in Afghanistan have had to close since the takeover of the country by the Taliban, and that just 2,334 journalists are still working in the country, a significant decline from a high of 5,069 journalists in the period preceding the fall of Kabul in August 2021, and that 72 percent of journalists who have lost their jobs have been female journalists; Whereas, in Pakistan, the Government maintained high levels of media censorship, and impunity persists in cases of killings and physical attacks on journalists, including— (1) the October 2022 killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya, where he had sought safety after feeling Pakistan in August 2022 while facing a series of police cases in Pakistan in relation to his work; and (2) the March 2023 Government ban on satellite television channels from airing live and recorded speeches by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, and the temporary suspension of the license of ARY News for broadcasting a speech by Khan; Whereas Morocco has experienced severe crackdowns on freedom of expression and supporters of a free press, with 13 journalists currently being detained, including— (1) Taoufik Bouachrine, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Akhbar al-Youm, who was arrested in February 2018 on retaliatory charges related to his journalism and is serving a 15-year sentence