Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)

While no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, reporter Azizullah Hamdard believes it is linked to his reporting on fraud during the Afghan presidential elections.

In what is cautiously being seen as a step forward in the fight against impunity in Afghanistan, an Afghan police officer has been found guilty in the death of AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus and the wounding of AP correspondent Kathy Gannon.

Abdul Maqsood Azizi, a reporter with Pajhwok Afghan News in Logar province, received a death threat after filing a story on corruption implicating the local governor.

Khalid Agha Yaqubi, a 27-year-old employee for a local radio station in northern Afghnistan, was shot dead. The shooter, who was accompanied by two or three people, knocked on the door [of the journalist’s house] and opened fire on him, when his child opened the door.

More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.

Calling for the release of website editor Khaled Hadi, AFJC urged the local authorities to respect the Afghan Mass Media law and pursue any complaint they may have through the Mass Media commission.

Anja Niedringhaus, a German photographer working with Associated Press, was killed while Canadian AP journalist Kathy Gannon was wounded when an Afghan policeman opened fire on the two women in the southeastern province of Khost.

The Afghanistan Journalists Center condemns a bomb attack on a local private radio station in Kama district, which destroyed the station and forced it to stop broadcasting.