Violence against journalists still exists in Afghanistan

When things happen the Journalists from different media outlets are the one to cover it and bring up more details for its viewers and readers, Ariana News and DW journalists whom were trying to cover and catch the images of the bloody attack which took place in Kabul early this morning, there were avoided by Afghan police forces and even badly behavior has been forced by the Afghan security forces against these two journalists.

Nai supporting open media in Afghanistan demanding the Government to provide necessary supports for journalist.

Violence against media workers in Afghanistan has had different factors the main reason is insecurity and not the implementation of law called access to information law.

Head of Nai supporting open media in Afghanistan Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar said,” unfortunately we have witnessed the other violence case against journalists in Kabul city, I demand all the media outlet workers to respect the law and profession as being journalists specially while such kind of terrorist attacks occur.”

Despite violence launched against the two journalists the DW correspondent Hussien Seirat was held for about half an hour by Afghan security forces.

Officials in Ministry of Interior Affairs have stated that the following cases will be pursued.

Ministry of Interior Affairs Spokesman Sediq Sediqee said,” if someone is beaten we are sorry for that and I m ready to apology, we will also launch investigation to see what a correspondent is beaten.”

Freedom of speech which has grown significantly in Afghanistan for the past decade is counted one of the big achievements of Afghanistan Government, today’s freedom of speech is coming from Afghan media outlet bloods.

Reported by Nabila Hafizi