KABUL this year, said free media supporting group NAI on Thursday.
In its annual report for 2018, NAI mentioned murder, torture, threats, insult, kidnapping and lack of access to information among incidents that took place against journalists.
NAI head Mujib Khalwatgar told reporters here there were 166 incidents of violence against journalists in 2017 and 196 incidents in 2018, showing an 18 percent increase.
This year, he said, 20 journalists were killed, 20 others injured, 34 tortured, 52 threatened, 9 arrested for short time . . .
