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HRW notes increasing threats to journalists in Afghanistan

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Incidents of violence against journalists have seen a spike in the outgoing solar, says a leading international human rights group.

As many as 191 incidents of violence, threats, intimidation, and insults against journalists were recorded from mid-March 2015 to mid-March 2016, compared to 103 incidents in 2014 to 2015.

The incidents included the killings of 10 journalists, the injuring of 22 and beatings of 24, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, quoting statistics from the Members

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