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th December, Afghan journalist and women’s rights campaigner, Malalai Maiwand, was killed by gunmen on her way to work in Jalalabad, a city in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to Reuters, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, through its telegram communications channel, calling Maiwand a “pro-regime” journalist. The shooting, which also killed Maiwand’s driver, comes just weeks after the journalist, Elyas Dayee, and the television presenter, Yama Siawash were killed in separate bombing incidents in November. This latest attack is endemic of growing insecurity in Afghanistan, especially for journalists, despite ongoing peace negotiations between the Afghan Government and the Taliban.
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Afghan President Orders Investigation Into Journalist’s Killing Bloomberg 12/22/2020 Eltaf Najafizada
(Bloomberg) Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered authorities to investigate the shooting death of a prominent Afghan journalist the fifth reporter to be killed in less than two months as the government and the Taliban push ahead with peace talks to end the country’s 19 year conflict.
Ghani described the murder as an “attack on freedom of speech and a crime against humanity,” his office said in an emailed statement late Monday. U.S. Charge d’Affaires Ross Wilson tweeted from Kabul that the “targeted killing” of journalists and “attempts to silence Afghanistan’s courageous reporters must end.”