Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)

Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.

Charged under the Sedition Act in Malaysia, internationally known political cartoonist Zunar could face 43 years in jail for a tweet.

They don’t write for The New York Times or The Daily Mail. And the Swazi government is counting on just that to keep Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko in jail for criticizing the judiciary.

Afghani radio reporter Aaqel Mohammed Waqar was gunned down in an attack that his editor believes was politically motivated and may have been carried out by the Taliban.

Journalist Zubair Hatami, who was seriously injured during a Taliban suicide attack on a French-run school in Kabul, Afghanistan succumbed to his wounds in hospital.

In response to AFJC’s national campaign against impunity, the Chief Executive Officer of Afghanistan’s National Unity Government vowed to put an end to impunity for crimes against journalists and media workers.

Civil society groups call for an end to repression of IFEX member the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, and urge UNESCO to take action to ensure free expression in Azerbaijan.

AFJC is saddened to learn that journalist Palwasha Tokhi Meranzai was stabbed to death in broad daylight in northern Afghanistan; she had reportedly received a death threat about a month before the incident.