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Violence Against Journalists Reaches to Unprecedented Levels
Statistics Show that violence against journalists in the first ten months of the current year is equivalent to the violence of the past eight years.
According to the recent survey by NAI, for total, 377 cases of violence against journalists including 13 cases of murder occurred in all across the country.
Officials in NAI say, nearly 96 journalists in Kunduz, 75 journalists in Helmand, 108 journalists in Farah and 13 others in Uruzgan forced to leave their jobs for a temporary basis.
Journalists in Afghanistan work under tough conditions. They have faced violence and threat on numerous occasions, which prevent them from carrying out their jobs.
“The video tape we received from a journalists in Zabul province was not investigated by judicial institutions, we want probe by the government,” said Sidiquallah Tawhidi, chairman of NAI.
Tawhidi complaint from responsible institutions over failure to prosecute murder and violence cases, calling on government and the international community to pay serious attention on situation of the Freedom of Speech in Afghanistan.
He considered the main factors of these violence are the terrorist groups and some of government officials.
The worsening security situation over the last six months, including an increase in suicide attacks and roadside bombs is one of the principal reasons for the unprecedented escalation of violence.
Violence against journalists in Afghanistan seriously limits media freedom in the country, affecting the work of civil society organizations (CSOs) and reducing the efficiency of development efforts in the country.
The scale and frequency of the violence can be hard to grasp, but NAI is collecting and aggregating hundreds of detailed reports throughout the country. To help make sense of this data and tell the story of what is happening on the ground we mapped the data.