Threat (Afghanistan)

  • 19 Apr 2017
    Atillah Noori

    Country Afghanistan  State Jowzjan  Violation Type Threat  Target Journalist

    On April 19, Ariana News reporter Atillah Noori was threatened and insulted by the guards of the chief of provincial police Mohammad Pahlawan in Sar-e-Pul province in northern Afghanistan. Policemen tried to attack him, and it was only an intervention from local people that saved Noori. The journalist was denied access to anyone in the police department except the Pahlawan on April 7 for interview.

  • 16 Feb 2017
    Mahmmod Naimi

    Country Afghanistan  State Nangarhar  Violation Type Threat  Target Media Staff

    Mahmmod Naimi, a cameraman of Ariana News, was threatened to death by Shaker Shinwari, the manager of Sher Ali hospital, when he inquired about the hospital services on February 16 in the Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. Naimi told AIJA that he went to the hospital for filming after receiving complaints about the lack of medical services in the hospital. The officials of the hospital refused to allow him to film and when he returned to his office, Shinwari threatened him over the phone.

  • 12 Oct 2015
    Tolo TV / 1TV

    Country Afghanistan  State Kabul  Violation Type Threat  Target Media Staff

    Taliban threatened to ‘eliminate’ journalists associated with two private TV channels – the Tolo TV and 1TV on October 12, 2015. In a statement issued by the military commission, the Taliban said it ‘does not recognize Tolo TV and 1TV channels as media outlets but designates them as military objectives due to their disrespectful and hostile actions towards Afghanistan’. The Taliban also called the channels propaganda machines that ‘ridicule religious and cultural norms, encourage obscenity and lewdness, inject the minds of youth with dangerous substances such as irreligiousness, immorality, violence, gambling, intermixing and profanity’. The statement threatened journalists saying ‘All the reporters and associates of these channels will be deemed enemy personnel, all of their centers, offices and dispatched teams will be considered military objectives which will be directly eliminated’.