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Foreign journalists face violence covering Afghan election

August 20, 2009 3:00 PM EDT

“When we were in that car and he was pointing that gun at us … I thought, ‘We’re done. We’re not getting out of here alive.'”

Afghanistan forbids reporting attacks during election

August 19, 2009 2:34 PM EDT

New York, August 19, 2009–The Afghan government should lift orders issued Tuesday for a media blackout on election-related violence during Thursday’s presidential polls, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Two AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan IED attack

August 12, 2009 2:52 PM EDT

New York, August 12, 2009–Tuesday’s roadside bomb attack that seriously wounded two Associated Press journalists highlights the dangers journalists face in covering the escalating conflict in Afghanistan.

At Tolo and other Afghan media, pressure from all sides

July 22, 2009 10:19 AM EDT

With elections due on August 20, pressure is mounting on Afghan journalists, and it’s coming from all sides. The International Federation of Journalists helped organize a meeting in Kabul last week to draw the fractious journalists’ community together; there are four or five competing organizations, all vying for recognition, dominance, and funding. In March, the…

Pajhwok Afghan News expands, faces tough decisions

July 20, 2009 9:44 AM EDT

I spent Sunday morning in Kabul catching up with Danish Karokhel, at left, director of Pajhwok Afghan News and (along with deputy Farida Nekzad) a 2008 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee. Pajhwok moved since the last time I was here, and with income from subscribers to its news service and grant money from NGOs, it…

Two kidnapped journalists escape captors

July 7, 2009 11:01 AM EDT

Tahir Ludin, David Rohde, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, were kidnapped on November 10, 2008, after Rohde was invited to interview a Taliban commander in Logar province outside Kabul. Ludin, an Afghan journalist, was acting as Rohde’s translator. Rohde was on book leave from The New York Times at the time of their abduction. According…

U.S. forces detain Afghan journalist for two days

June 30, 2009 12:38 PM EDT

U.S. troops arrested radio journalist Noorajan Baheer on June 2, 2009, and detained him for two nights, according to Pajhwok Afghan News agency and Agence France-Presse.

CPJ thrilled Times reporter and assistant are free

June 20, 2009 11:22 AM EDT

Reacting to reports that New York Times reporter David Rohde and his assistant Tahir Ludin have escaped Taliban captors who held them for more than seven months, we issued the following statement:

An Afghan fixer struggles in exile in Sweden

June 18, 2009 5:08 PM EDT

I am from Afghanistan, but I have lived in exile in Sweden for almost a year and a half. I spent my teenaged life in Pakistan, where I moved in 1997 to escape the savage regime of the Taliban.

Two Al-Jazeera producers detained in Afghanistan

June 15, 2009 4:58 PM EDT

New York, June 15, 2009–Intelligence officials at the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Kabul should immediately release two Afghan journalists detained on Sunday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.