Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 17, 2016 Afghan officials say unknown gunmen have shot dead a reporter in the southern province of Zabul. Zabul Province’s police chief, General Mirwais Noorzai, said Yaqoob Sharafat was killed late on October 16 in the provincial capital, Qalat. Sharafat was reportedly leaving a clinic with his wife when the
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 10, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Unknown gunmen have attacked and injured the editor-in-chief of a leading newspaper in Afghanistan, the latest such attack in a country where journalists are often subjected to violence and threats. The overnight attack on Abdul Saboor Sarir of the Kabul-based English daily Afghanistan Times took place in
Human Rights Watch: A purported recording of an encounter between members of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s security detail and a journalist is a troubling reminder of the fragility of the country’s hard-won media freedom. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Shahrbano Sadat, the young Afghan female film maker and director of Wolf and Sheep, which won a Cannes Film Festival prize earlier this year, has said that insecurity in the country was the reason she filmed the movie outside of the country. She says that with every film she works on there are dozens of
Human Rights Watch: Afghan authorities should urgently investigate allegations that security forces physically assaulted and detained journalists after violence broke out during a protest in central Bamiyan province on August 29, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The demonstrators had been organizing a protest about a major power transmission line during a visit to the area
Noor Zahid VOA News August 27, 2016 The war in Afghanistan has long been a dangerous assignment for journalists, but groups say the country’s deteriorating security situation is making things more dire, especially in areas held by the Taliban and Islamic State fighters where the government is struggling to regain control. “The overall situation in
1TV: Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah’s Twitter account was hacked on Saturday and filled with a post that ridiculed the official. The attack happened four days after the official posted tweets stressing on government’s decision on route of a planned power line despite protest. “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery,” the only tweet by the hackers read
Press TV July 12, 2016 At least 10 professional journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan, making 2016 the most violent year so far for reporters in the history of the war-ravaged country. The Afghan Journalists’ Safety Committee (AJSC), which released its January-June findings, said that it had documented at least
Wall Street Journal: The Taliban are active on a variety of media platforms. They recently began releasing audio files with songs and news updates, and launched a smartphone app for their Voice of Jihad website, available in multiple languages. Their videos, once grainy, are sleek and widely shared. The Taliban’s digital revamp has coincided with the
Press TV June 8, 2016 At least 12 civilians have been killed and 50 others abducted in two separate attacks by unknown militants on passengers traveling in eastern and northern Afghanistan. Jawid Salangi, an official in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, said that armed men had stopped two cars, ordered all those on board out