Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)

Articles by Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)

A protester carries portraits of Edward Snowden during a demonstration against secret monitoring programmes and showing solidarity with whistleblowers Edward Snowden and others in Berlin on 27 July 2013, REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

Over 150 groups urge President Obama to protect whistleblowers and journalists

Over 150 IFEX members and partners of ARTICLE 19 appealed to US President Obama to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden, update the Whistleblower Protection Act and pass a media shield law.

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Local radio station shuttered, journalists assaulted in Afghanistan

A local radio station in northern Afghanistan was shut down after station employees refused to pay bribes to the authorities concerned.

Somalia's Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid (L) and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (R) at an event in Mogadishu July 2013., REUTERS/Feisal Omar

35 IFEX members call for amendments to Somalia’s draft media law

IFEX members issued a joint call for amendments to a deeply-flawed draft media law in Somalia before it goes to parliament for approval in August.

Link to: Afghanistan Journalists Center hails reporter’s release

Afghanistan Journalists Center hails reporter’s release

While hailing the release of a Kabul-based reporter as a positive move, the Afghanistan Journalists Center voices grave concern at the increasing insecurity haunting media professionals.