Activists Call for Probe into Assault on Kapisa Journalist
Journalists rights defenders on Friday called for an investigation into the reports of an assault on a local reporter in Kapisa province north of Kabul and said any delay in the assessment of such incidents will have severe impacts on efforts to support press freedom in the country.
Activists said the journalist, Maqbool Noori who is from Parwan province and was in Kapisa to report on land grabbing was beaten by armed men associated with the head of the dispute resolution and tribal affairs directorate in Kapisa.
Noori said he was with his colleague when they were attacked by the armed men.
Activists Call for Probe into Assault on Kapisa Journalist
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Afghan women s rights activist Freshta Kohistani, brother shot dead Geeta Mohan
Women s rights activist Freshta Kohistani and her brother were shot dead by unknown gunmen on a motorbike in Dahno village of Hes-e-Awal in Kohistan district of Kapisa province. Unknown gunmen on a motorbike assassinated Freshta Kohistani in Kohistan district of Kapisa province, AFP quoted interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian as saying.
Freshta Kohistani, aged 29, was the second activist to be killed in two days after a prominent pro-democracy advocate was gunned down in Kabul on Wednesday.
Their murders follow a similar pattern seen in recent weeks, in which prominent Afghans have died in targeted killings in broad daylight, several of them in the capital.
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With the increase in violence against journalists, politicians and rights activists in Afghanistan, women s rights activist Freshta Kohistani and her brother were shot dead by motorbike-borne gunmen in the north of Afghanistan s capital.
Kohistani, 29, who spoke against the wave of assassination in Afghanistan, was the second activist to be killed in Kabul in two days after a prominent pro-democracy advocate was killed. Unknown gunmen on motorbike assassinated Freshta Kohistani in Kohistan district of Kapisa province, said interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian. Kapisa provincial governor Abdul Latif Murad said the shooting had taken place near Kohistani s home and that her brother was also killed in the attack.
KABUL: Gunmen on motorcycle shot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, as a wave of assassinations ravages the country.
Freshta Kohistani, aged 29, was the second activist to be killed in two days after a prominent pro-democracy advocate was gunned down in Kabul on Wednesday.
Their murders follow a similar pattern seen in recent weeks, in which prominent Afghans have died in targeted killings in broad daylight, several of them in the capital.
“Unknown gunmen on a motorbike assassinated Freshta Kohistani in Kohistan district of Kapisa province,” interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian told reporters.
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