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Unexplained murder

Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley

Published on 21 May 2013Read

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Mounting violence

Journalists still targeted by violence, threats and censorship

Published on 24 April 2013Read

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Three reporters freed but physical attacks on journalists continue

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, the correspondent of the London-based Guardian newspaper, (...)

Published on 17 December 2009 Read

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Call for probe into Afghan journalist’s death during British rescue operation

Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth Secretary of State for Defence London United Kingdom Paris, 16 September 2009 Dear Secretary of State, There has been a (...)

Published on 16 September 2009 Read

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Homage to Afghan journalist killed in rescue operation

Journalists have been paying tribute to Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi, who was killed during a British military operation early this morning to (...)

Published on 9 September 2009 Read

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Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroad

Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who was sentenced to death and then to 20 (...)

Published on 7 September 2009 Read

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Government restricts media coverage on election day

The instructions which the government issued to the media yesterday forbidding them to cover Taliban violence during tomorrow’s presidential (...)

Published on 19 August 2009 Read

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State radio and TV broadcaster backs Hamid Karzai’s reelection campaign

The violence that threatens journalists working for Afghanistan’s news media has created a climate that does not favour free and impartial (...)

Published on 14 August 2009 Read

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Two AP journalists badly injured by roadside bomb near Kandahar

Reporters Without Borders’s concern about the growing dangers for journalists in the run-up to the 20 August presidential election has been (...)

Published on 12 August 2009 Read

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Letter asks presidential candidates to pledge to advance press freedom

Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidates – including Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani, (...)

Published on 31 July 2009 Read