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Mounting violence

Journalists still targeted by violence, threats and censorship

Published on 24 April 2013Read

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More violence

Afghan government urged to guarantee journalists’ safety

Published on 6 March 2013Read

Afghanistan

Attorney general’s office issues illegal warrant for writer’s arrest

Reporters Without Borders is very worried to learn that an arrest warrant was issued in Kabul on 30 January for Partaw Naderi, a well-known poet, (...)

Published on 5 February 2013 Read

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Attempts to censor and intimidate two Kabul news media

Reporters Without Borders condemns attempts to censor Pajhwok Afghan News and Radio Killid after they reported that there was a shootout on 25 (...)

Published on 3 August 2012 Read

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News outlets prosecuted for reporting that Iran bribed parliamentarians

Reporters Without Borders is puzzled that the Media Offences Commission has decided to refer complaints against the Pajhwok Afghan News agency (...)

Published on 13 June 2012 Read

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Journalist wounded in blast at offices of Dunya Radio

Read in farsi Reporters Without Borders deplores the attack today on the station Dunya Radio in Parwan Province and urges the police to conduct (...)

Published on 29 May 2012 Read

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Local radio station manager decapitated in southeast

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn of the murder of Sadim Khan Bhadrzai, the manager of Mehman - Melma, a local radio station in (...)

Published on 23 February 2012 Read

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Cameraman sprayed with acid in Kabul

Reporters Without Borders condemns the acid attack on Parviz Safi, a cameramen for the state-owned English-language television station Press TV, (...)

Published on 14 February 2012 Read

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For a free, independent and democratic Afghanistan

A decade after the removal of the Taliban government, journalists’ unions and organizations that support open media in Afghanistan, together with (...)

Published on 25 November 2011 Read