Afghanistan, Badakhshan
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25
May
2017
Ahmad Fawad Talash, Javid Saddat, Said Amin Jalali and Salam Fretat
On May 25, Governor Abdul Hai Namati cut off a television interview stating that he didn’t like the questions. He was been interviewed for a program called ‘Face to Face’ on Arezo TV. There were four journalists for the interview, who was subsequently threatened and ordered to delete the footage. When they refused to delete the footage, they were blocked from leaving the governor’s office premises. Ahmad Fawad Talash, Javid Saddat, Said Amin Jalali and Salam Fretat were held for two hours and were only allowed to leave after intervention from media rights organisations.
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12
Oct
2016
Mhamad Reza Wahidi
Mohamad Reza Wahidi, owner of Nasim Radio was assaulted by the two men who knocked on his door on October 12 in Nili, the provincial capital of Dykundi province in central Afghanistan. He collapsed after he was hit on his head and threatened at gunpoint and told to refrain from broadcasting the news. He was also warned that his family and son would be harmed if he continued his reporting. On the same night the offices of Nasim Radio were damaged in a bomb attack. Nasim Radio was the first private radio station established in Dykundi Province in 2011.
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18
Sep
2015
Yama Behroz
Yama Behroz was killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at his doorstep on September 18. Yama, a recent journalism graduate, was working as a freelance journalist with a local media organisation. Some of the reports suggested that the IED was planted at his door, and he was then called and asked to come out of the house.