Ehsan Akbari News Today

January 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX's regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary arrests of three Afghan journalists by Taliban intelligence in the space of two days in Kabul and calls for the immediate release of the one still held, the Kabul correspondent of Japan’s Kyodo News agency. The Taliban must stop obstructing journalists’ work, RSF says.

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Kabul, Jan 22 (EFE).- The Taliban government has allegedly arrested a local journalist associated with Japan’s Kyodo news agency, a media watchdog said on Monday. The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) said the reporter, Ehsan Akbari, was detained on Jan. 17 and his whereabouts remain unknown. “There is no updated information regarding his well-being,” AFJC head …

Electricity could help speed wound healing, new study shows Electrical impulses may help vessels more quickly get healing agents to injuries The study, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip, found that steady electrical stimulation generates increased permeability across blood vessels, providing new insight into the ways new blood vessels might grow. The electrical stimulation provided a constant voltage with an accompanying electric current in the presence of flui...