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An Afghan police officer inspects vehicles at a checkpoint in Kabul on August 6, 2017. An Afghan journalist was recently killed when he was shot by two unidentified men in Khost. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

Afghan journalist killed; Islamic State affiliate claims responsibility

March 18, 2019 1:40 PM EDT

New York, March 18, 2019 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the killing of Afghan journalist Sultan Mahmoud Khairkhwah and calls on authorities to investigate his killing and improve the safety of journalists in the country.

Afghan policemen search passengers at a checkpoint in Helmand province on December 17, 2017. A journalist in Helmand was recently injured by a car bomb in an assassination attempt. (Noor Mohammad/AFP)

Afghan journalist wounded in assassination attempt

March 12, 2019 1:16 PM EDT

New York, March 12, 2019 — The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Afghan authorities to swiftly investigate the attempted assassination of journalist Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi in Helmand province today and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Afghan relatives of victims looks on as they stand in front of a hospital following a bomb attack in Taloqan in northeastern Takhar province on October 13, 2018. Two radio journalists were shot and killed in Taloqan on February 5, 2019. (AFP/Naseer Sadeq)

Two radio journalists shot and killed in northern Afghanistan

February 6, 2019 5:18 PM EST

New York, February 6, 2019–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Afghan authorities to promptly investigate and bring to justice those responsible for yesterday’s killing of two journalists in Taloqan, the capital city of northern Takhar province.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London on September 29, 2018. He was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2. (Middle East Monitor/Handout via Reuters)

More journalists killed on the job as reprisal murders nearly double

December 19, 2018 12:00 AM EST

Journalists from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan to the U.S. were targeted for murder in 2018 in reprisal for their work, bringing the total of journalists killed on duty to its highest in three years. The number of journalists killed in conflict fell to its lowest level since 2011. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser

A tribute to victims of an April 2018 suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, that killed at least nine journalists. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Getting Away with Murder

October 29, 2018 11:00 AM EDT

CPJ’s 2018 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free By Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant Impunity is entrenched in 14 nations, according to CPJ’s 2018 Global Impunity Index, which ranks states with the worst records of prosecuting the killers of journalists.

An injured boy is held up outside a hospital following a deadly double bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 5, 2018. Two TOLO News journalists, Samim Faramarz and Ramiz Ahmadi, were killed in the second bombing. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Two TOLO News journalists killed in Afghanistan double bombing

September 5, 2018 3:35 PM EDT

Washington, D.C., September 5, 2018–At least two journalists were killed today in a double bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to news reports. TOLO News published that its reporter Samim Faramarz and cameraman Ramiz Ahmadi were killed by the second blast while covering the first, which occurred at a wrestling club in a Shi’ite…

Afghan security personnel patrol in Ghazni city. Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces in and around Ghazni has left at least 20 civilians dead since August 10, the AP reported. (AP/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

Media worker killed, telecom connections destroyed in Afghanistan

August 13, 2018 4:56 PM EDT

New York, August 13, 2018– Mohammad Daud Anwari, a media technician for the state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan, was killed on August 10 during an attack by the Taliban on Tape-e-Television, an area of Ghazni city where many local media antennas are located, the Afghan Journalist Safety Committee (AJSC) reported.

Relatives, colleagues, and friends carry the coffin at a ceremony for AFP driver Mohammad Akhtar in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 23, 2018, one day after he was killed in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)

Afghan AFP driver killed in suicide attack while traveling to work

July 23, 2018 3:52 PM EDT

New York, July 23, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns yesterday’s suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, in which at least one media worker was killed.

One Deadly Day in Afghanistan

May 14, 2018 7:08 PM EDT

April 30 was the deadliest day for journalists in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban. A double suicide blast in the capital, Kabul, killed nine journalists from a combination of local and international outlets including AFP, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, TOLO News, TV1, and Mashal TV. The journalists killed that day were Yar Mohammad…

Journalists mourn for their colleagues who were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul on April 30, 2018 that killed at least nine members of the press. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

In Afghanistan, at least 10 journalists killed in one day in bombings and shooting

April 30, 2018 2:12 PM EDT

New York, April 30, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned multiple attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least 10 journalists in one of the deadliest days CPJ has recorded for the country’s press.