Moby Group

News Summary:

Saad Mohseni, chairman of Moby Group and founder of TOLO TV, recently drew intense criticism on June 7, 2026, from Afghan activists, journalists, and diaspora members for remarks he made at a public discussion during the Jaipur Literature Festival in London concerning the situation of women in Afghanistan. This followed a May 12, 2026 incident where dozens of Taliban intelligence officers reportedly raided the Kabul office of Moby Group, the parent company of TOLOnews, and interrogated staff after TOLOnews announced the arrest of its journalists Mansour Niazi and Imran Danish, as reported by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Earlier, on June 2, 2025, Mohseni sold his Greenwich Village townhouse for $4.8 million, having reportedly left New York several years prior; Moby Group is based in Dubai. In May 2025, Mohseni had also offered his perspective on Afghanistan, stating that three years after the U.S. withdrawal, the country, while under Taliban control, was not as isolated or dysfunctional as many might assume.