10 Sep 09 | Comment, News and features
Freelance journalist Sultan Munadi was killed in the British military rescue of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell. Index on Censorship spoke about growing risks to local freelancers with Tina Carr of the Rory Peck Trust, a charity that helps freelance journalists and their families in times of crisis.
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07 Sep 09 | Index Index, minipost, News and features
Afghan student Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh has been freed from prison after he was secretly pardon by Afghanistan’s President Karzai. Kambakhsh was sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment, after he was accused of circulating an article that questioned the role of women in the Quran.
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24 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
Two cases of voters having fingers amputated have been reported in Afghanistan following last weeks elections. Prior to voting, Taliban forces in the region had threatened to remove any fingers stained with the ink used to provide proof of having cast a ballot. Investigations are currently ongoing regarding a third case. The news comes amidst reports that security forces obstructed, assaulted, and detained Afghan and foreign journalists enforcing an official gag order on news of violent incidents during the presidential election. Read more here
19 Aug 09 | Comment, News and features
Short-term restrictions on freedom of expression in the run-up to Thursday’s Afghan vote may mask deeper and longer term steps to curtail the rights of the media that independent journalists may find harder to resist, says Rohan Jayasekera
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