Afghanistan - Journalist held on charge of collaborating with Taliban

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to explain the detention of Syed Rahman Bekore, the Wakht News agency's correspondent in the eastern province of Kunar, for allegedly assisting rebel groups. A member of the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA), Bekore has been held ever since his arrest by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Jalalabad, the capital of the neighbouring province of Nangarhar, on 27 April. The NDS arrested two other journalists at the (...)

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