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India on Thursday expressed deep concern over the recent rise in the targeted killings of journalists and civil society activists in Afghanistan and called fo

RSF to Approach Intl Courts Over Afghan Journalist Deaths Reporters Without Borders (RSF) stated that the Afghan government does not have the capacity to investigate the murder cases of Afghan journalists,  and the organization will lodge a complaint with the International courts This comes as the Afghan government has been insisting that the Taliban were behind the attacks on the Afghan journalists, something the Taliban have always denied. The Taliban on Wednesday released a statement in w...

Since the intra-Afghan talks began in September in Qatar's Doha, violence has increased in the country, including an attack on Kabul University which killed dozens of students.

7 Journalists, 1 Media Worker Killed in 2020 in Afghanistan A report indicates that four anchors, three reporters and a cameraman have lost their lives in terrorist incidents in different parts of the country in 2020. This number was similar to 2019 but the level of threats to journalists and media workers has been unprecedentedly high in recent months and continues unabated.  The Afghanistan Journalists Center, in a report published Saturday, says in 2020 Daesh was responsible for killing t...

1 minute read Smoke rises from the site of a car bomb attack that targeted police headquarters, in Feroz Koh, Ghor province, Afghanistan, 18 October 2020, -/AFP via Getty Images Afghan radio journalist Besmillah Adel Aimaq was shot dead in a car ambush making him the fifth media worker to be killed in two months in Afghanistan. This statement was originally published on afjc.af on 1 January 2021. Afghan radio journalist Besmillah Adel Aimaq has been shot dead in a car ambush...

(Last Updated On: January 2, 2021) In a series of tweets, the Afghanistan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) slammed the Ghor provincial government for its lack of cooperation in helping to safeguard the life of slain journalist Bismillah Adil.    This comes after Adil and the AJSC repeatedly requested support from Ghor provincial government regarding his safety.      AJSC said on Twitter: “AJSC condemns the indifference of the local government in Ghor towards repeated req...

Afghan Govt’s Security Policy for Journalists Questioned Journalists and the Ministry of Information and Cutlure (MoIC) on Saturday criticized the Afghan security agencies for failing to address the threats facing journalists community in Afghanistan, saying the government has relied on issuing condemnation statements instead of taking action against such acts.  “No one should be killed only few kilometers away from the highly important political and security institutions,” said Tahir ...

Kabul, Jan. 1, 2021 An Afghanistan journalist, Bismillah Adil Aimaq, was on Friday assassinated by some armed men in Dara-e-Taimoor Village on the outskirts of Feroz Koh in Ghor locality, reports said. Adil, who was also a civil society activist in Ghor, was the sixth journalist to be killed in two months. Mohammad Aref Abir, Ghor governor’s spokesman, said Adil, who was the head of a local radio station, Radio Sada-e-Ghor, was killed in the attack by the armed men, TOLO News reported. On Dec...

Afghan Journalist Laid to Rest in Ghor, Family Calls for Justice The body of Bismillah Adil Aimaq, a journalist and civil society activist in Ghor, who was killed in an attack by unknown armed men in the city of Feroz Koh on Friday, was laid to rest in his hometown in Ghor province on Saturday.  Aimaq’s father said the Afghan security agencies did nothing to foil attack on his son. He called on judicial institutions to identity the attackers and serve them justice. “The enemies of my dea...

Afghanistan: Gunmen kill prominent journalist and activist Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist. Afghanistan is ranked among the deadliest countries in the world for journalists. Feroz Koh is located in central Afghanistan Gunmen in western Afghanistan opened fire on the car of journalist Bismillah Adil Aimaq on Friday, killing him but leaving others traveling in the vehicle unharmed, the spokesman for the governor of Gho...