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Afghanistan: Afghan journalist killed in PakistanDate:26/08/2009 New York, August 24, 2009--Authorities in Pakistan's northwest tribal regions must immediately investigate today's murder of Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan journalist killed in PakistanDate:26/08/2009 Authorities in Pakistan's northwest tribal regions must immediately investigate today's murder of Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan journalists call for justice in Munadi's deathDate:15/09/2009 A large group of Afghan journalists met on Sunday in Kabul...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan journalists debate election restrictionsDate:24/08/2009 'CPJ spoke with three Kabul-based journalists to learn how they and their colleagues around the country responded to the government's request to mute coverage of violence during polling hours today...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan police beat, detain journalists during electionDate:24/08/2009 Security forces obstructed, assaulted, and detained Afghan and foreign journalists in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan today, enforcing an official gag order on news of violent incidents during the presidential election...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghanistan journalists caught between the government and the TalebanDate:17/08/2009 Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing threats and attacks from both government officials and the Taleban in the run-up to the presidential elections on 20 August...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Sham Vote Date:26/08/2009 'The dust had barely settled on the Afghan elections before the U...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Amid concerns of fraud, UN envoy calls for ensuring integrity of Afghan pollsDate:08/09/2009 'The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today called on national election authorities to ensure the integrity of last month’s presidential and provincial council elections, in light of concerns that have arisen over irregularities in voting...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Amid concerns of fraud, UN envoy calls for ensuring integrity of Afghan pollsDate:08/09/2009 The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today called on national election authorities to ensure the integrity of last month’s presidential and provincial council elections, in light of concerns that have arisen over irregularities in voting...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Amid woes, Kambakhsh release a moment to celebrate Date:09/09/2009 'We received great news that Parwez Kambakhsh, a 24-year-old Afghan journalist and student who was unjustly convicted of blasphemy and serving a 20-year term, was released from prison...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: ARTICLE 19 Calls for Investigation into Journalist’s DeathDate:16/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 calls for an immediate investigation into the death of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: At Tolo and other Afghan media, pressure from all sidesDate:27/07/2009 With elections due on August 20, pressure is mounting on Afghan journalists, and it's coming from all sides...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Emroz channel presenter freed on bail after being held because of complaint by IranDate:22/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomes TV reporter and presenter Fahim Kohdamani's release on 19 April after a four weeks of detention in Kabul and calls for the withdrawal of the defamation and insult charges still pending against him, especially as the organisation has obtained a letter ( attached) proving that his arrest was the result of a complaint by Iranian officials...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Freedom of expression faces increasing threatDate:13/03/2009 Freedom of expression in Afghanistan faces increasing threats from the government as well as anti-government forces, Amnesty International warned today...
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Friday, 13 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Government restricts media coverage on election dayDate:21/08/2009 The instructions which the government issued to the media yesterday forbidding them to cover Taliban violence during tomorrow’s presidential election send a very bad signal, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Jounalist kidnapped, IFJ concerned that dangers faced by journalists may escalate leading up to August electionsDate:16/07/2009 Dangers for Journalists Rise as Afghan Elections Approach The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that the dangers faced by Afghan journalists may be escalating rapidly as Afghanistan prepares for nation-wide elections on August 20...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Letter asks presidential candidates to pledge to advance press freedomDate:03/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidates – including Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani, Ramazan Bashardost and Sayed Jalal Karim – urging them to give a clear undertaking to ensure that press freedom becomes firmly rooted in the everyday life of Afghans...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Media Law Wrangling Leaves Journalists in LimboDate:25/02/2009 Few legal issues in Afghanistan's chaotic recent past have caused so much fuss as the still-unpublished media law, which has gone through at least three major revisions in the past seven years, with the latest version seemingly far from becoming a reality...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroadDate:08/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who was sentenced to death and then to 20 years in prison for downloading an article about the rights of women in Islam, was secretly pardoned and released several weeks ago and left the country for fear of reprisals...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroadDate:09/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who was sentenced to death and then to 20 years in prison for downloading an article about the rights of women in Islam, was secretly pardoned and released several weeks ago and left the country for fear of reprisals...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: State radio and TV broadcaster backs Hamid Karzai’s reelection campaignDate:17/08/2009 The violence that threatens journalists working for Afghanistan’s news media has created a climate that does not favour free and impartial coverage of the 20 August crucial presidential election, now just one week away, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: UN: Violence hampering Afghan voteDate:11/08/2009 Insecurity in significant portions of Afghanistan has hindered election preparations and disproportionately affected Afghan women, a report co-authored by the U...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: What gains for press freedom from Hamid Karzai's seven years as President?Date:09/07/2009 The reign of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 was a dark period in Afghanistan’s history...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Wide Fraud Is Charged as Afghans Tally Votes Date:26/08/2009 KABUL, Afghanistan ; The preliminary results from Afghanistan’s election gave both President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, nearly 40 percent of the vote on Tuesday as accumulating charges of widespread fraud cast new doubts on the credibility of the election...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan's Constitution Creates Death Penalties for Religious FreedomDate:24/02/2009 When Ahmad Ghawas Zalmi worked with a cleric from a Kabul mosque to produce 1, 000 pocket-sized copies of the Quran in the Afghan language known as Dari, he probably was not expecting to end up facing execution for his efforts...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan's war on booksDate:09/06/2009 The Afghan government last week threw tens of thousands of books into the Helmand river, in the south of the country...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AfghanistanDate:08/07/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression Afghanistan...
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Growth Under Adversity: Afghanistan Press Freedom Report 2007-2008Date:20/10/2008 IFJ-AIJA-CPAJ report on press freedom developments in Afghanistan during a 20-month monitoring project from 2007-2008...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Media Watch ReportDate:26/03/2009 Report on open media in Afghanistan...
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Thursday, 26 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never Forgets a FaceDate: 13/07/2011 "When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates who escaped...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Afghanistan suspends political party sparking fears over freedom of speechDate: 14 June 2012 - "Afghanistan has suspended a political party for the first time since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, a ban diplomats and activists say is a worrying sign freedoms in the country could suffer as western troops leave...
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Thursday, 14 June 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 19 June 2012