Notwithstanding the passings of two columnists working for the U.S. National Public Radio, who were executed in the southern area of Helmand, various instances of beating and terrorizing were accounted for to the Kabul Press Club and Afghan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA).
Twenty-two cases were accounted for in June, around twofold the month to month level seen in past years, with 15 did by security powers, four by the Taliban and another three by anonymous furnished gatherings, Rahimullah Samander, the head of AIJA, told a public interview.
"We ask government divisions, furnished gatherings and the individuals who required in the battling to prepare for correspondents to carry out their employments legitimately," Samander said.
Universal worry about assaults on columnists has developed subsequent to a Taliban suicide plane executed seven staff of Afghanistan's biggest private TV channel in January.
Be that as it may, the hop in instances of abuse underscores the occasionally shaky circumstance confronting media specialists in Afghanistan from the Taliban as well as from security powers.
"Now and again, government representatives, uniquely low-positioning cops, don't see how to act with correspondents," Samander said.
Brutality against writers was recorded in Kabul, and also the regions of Zabul in the south, Daikundi in the middle and Logar in the east.
NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and his Afghan partner Zabihullah Tamanna were killed in a Taliban trap this month in southern Helmand territory and after two days a radio station was exploded by the Taliban in eastern Nangarhar.
The right to speak freely has been seen as a key accomplishment of the Western-supported governments in Kabul over late years.
(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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