Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

Supporters of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai assaulted two cameramen working for Khurshid and Rahe Farda television channels. The incident occurred during the vote audit at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) head office in Kabul on Sunday 9 August 2014.

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.