Afghanistan - Pakistani journalist gets four-year jail term for “entering Afghanistan illegally”

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TV reporter was arrested in eastern Afghanistan after going to northwestern Pakistan to interview Taliban Reporters Without Borders and the Pakistani NGO Freedom Network condemn the four-year jail sentence that an Afghan court has imposed on Pakistani TV reporter Faizullah Khan for illegally crossing into Afghanistan while researching a story on the Taliban. Announced on 13 July, the sentence was imposed by a military court in the eastern province of Nangarhar that specializes in threats (...)

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