Afghanistan Journalist

Backlash Over Times Reporter's Rescue In Afghanistan

Yahoo! News | Lynne O'Donnell | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


KABUL (AFP) -- Criticism mounted on Thursday of the dramatic airborne rescue from Taliban territory of a kidnapped Western journalist who walked free ...

Karzai Government Demands Afghan Media Blackout On Election Day, Journalists Refuse

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.19.2009 | World


KABUL — Afghan journalists charged Wednesday that their government was violating the constitution by trying to censor reports of violence on ele...

Afghan Journalist's 20-Year Blasphemy Sentence Upheld By Court

New York Times | ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 04.11.2009 | World


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy in a ...

Afghanistan Approves Death Sentence For Journalist Accused Of Insulting Islam

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Afghanistan's upper house of parliament lauded the death sentence handed down against a local journalist who was found guilty of insulting Islam, an o...