They Were Journalists, and Women, and Targeted for Both
As Afghanistan enters a desperate chapter, with U.S. troops potentially on the way out, insurgents are pressing a deadly campaign to silence the media and keep women home.
Relatives and mourners perform funeral prayers over the coffin of one of the three female media workers shot and killed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, this week.Credit.Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
You can tell a lot about a country by the reasons its journalists get attacked.
In many places, the greatest dangers come from revealing the sensitive points where power, secrecy and corruption intersect: Stories about connections between cartels and politicians in Mexico, a bribery scandal in the Philippines and illicit actions by the governments of Egypt and Turkey have all led to journalists being imprisoned on trumped-up charges, attacked or even killed.
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Three Women Working for a News Outlet Are Gunned Down in Afghanistan
The women, the latest victims in a wave of targeted attacks, were killed on their way home from their jobs at Enikass Radio and TV in Jalalabad.
Hospital workers and relatives moving the body of one of the three media workers killed in two separate attacks in Jalalabad on Tuesday.Credit.Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Published March 2, 2021Updated March 4, 2021
JALALABAD, Afghanistan Three women who worked at a local news outlet were gunned down in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to local officials, adding to the bloody tally of Afghan media workers and journalists who have been killed at alarming rates in the past year.