At least 50 journalists were reported killed in 2020, more than one-third in the countries considered “at peace", according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday. RSF, an international NGO that safeguards the right to freedom of…
Leading media outlets have called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take serious actions to check violence against journalists in Afghanistan. In a letter to the influential UN body on November 18, Afghanistan’s journalist community voiced…
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled a list of 30 coronavirus “information heroes,” including Pajhwok Afghan News whose courage, perseverance or capacity to innovate helped circulate reliable and vital information during the pandemic. “Some people have taken such…
Reporters without Borders (RSF) supports a protest by 30 Afghan media outlets about the government’s failure to apply the law on access to state-held information, which was drafted with RSF’s help, according to a statement on Tuesday. The…
Reporters without Borders (RSF) supports a protest by 30 Afghan media outlets about the government’s failure to apply the law on access to state-held information, which was drafted with RSF’s help, according to a statement on…
KABUL media and urged the unity government and US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to do whatever was necessary to protect journalists. In a statement issued by the Taliban’s Military Commission on 23 June, the Taliban accused the media of “disseminating…
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for more protection for its journalists, who are the guarantors of free, transparent and democratic elections, according to a statement on Monday. Afghanistan prepares to hold parliamentary elections for its 14 million…
KABUL, according to a statement on Wednesday. In a communiqué issued after the bombing of Radio “voice of Sharia”, a Taliban propaganda outlet in the central province of Ghazni, by US-led coalition aircraft on 10 June. “Media financed by…
KABUL in 2017, another bloody year for and media workers in the war-torn country, a global watchdog said on Wednesday. On the 2018 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) of Reporters Without Boarders (RSF), Afghanistan was ranked 118th. Norway was ranked…
KABUL have forced media outlets in several provinces to pay taxes that are tantamount to a ransom to be allowed to continue operating, Reporters Without Boarder (RSF) said on Tuesday. The targets have included Ghaznavian, a privately-owned TV channel based…
KABUL provinces. The head of RSF’s Iran-Afghanistan desk Réza Moïni said the organization called on President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah to implement appropriate measures for the protection of journalists. “At this time of danger, the NATO…
