Radio station firebombed
AUGUST 11, 2006 Posted: August 25, 2006 Radio Istiqlal ATTACKED Although the station in the province of Loghar south of Kabul did not receive any threats before the attack, police confirmed that a “night letter”—an anonymous warning posted on walls and distributed by hand—appeared in the town a few days before.
Tolo TV crew beaten
July 29, 2006 Posted: August 30, 2006 Noorullah Rahmani, Tolo TV Qais Ahmad, Tolo TV ATTACKED A news crew from the privately owned Tolo TV was beaten by unidentified gunmen while filing a report on a demonstration against Member of Parliament Abdorrab Rasul Sayyaf in Paghman district of Kabul Province, according to the director of…
Afghanistan: Cameraman killed reporting on double suicide bomb attack
New York, July 24, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of Aryana television cameraman Abdul Qodus, who died in a double suicide bombing in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday. Qodus had arrived at the scene of a suicide car bomb when a second attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew…
Attacks on the Press 2005: CPJ Releases Attacks on the Press in Four Cities
New York, February 14, 2006–Highlighting the global nature of its press freedom advocacy work, the Committee to Protect Journalists today released its annual press freedom survey Attacks on the Press in four cities: Bangkok, Cairo, London and Washington, D.C.
Attacks on the Press 2005: Countries That Have Jailed Journalists (Follow Links for More Details)
AFGHANISTAN: 1 Ali Mohaqqiq Nasab, Haqooq-i-Zan (Women’s Rights) Imprisoned: October 1, 2005 The attorney general ordered editor Nasab’s arrest on blasphemy charges after the religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, Mohaiuddin Baluch, filed a complaint about his magazine. “I took the two magazines and spoke to the Supreme Court chief, who wrote to the attorney…