{"id":121548,"date":"2021-12-26T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121548"},"modified":"2021-12-26T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T23:58:58","slug":"afghanistan-emerges-most-dangerous-country-for-scribes-pec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/26\/afghanistan-emerges-most-dangerous-country-for-scribes-pec\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan emerges most dangerous country for scribes: PEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Geneva: As the year 2021 sets to finish its cycle,\nAfghanistan emerges as the most dangerous country for scribes with 12\njourno-casualties, followed by Mexico (10 dead), Pakistan (7), India (6), etc.\nThe south Asian nation also lost at least 10 media workers to the Covid-19\ncomplications till date, said Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media\nsafety and rights body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Taliban take over the country in August, it\nalso witnessed the collapse of over 150 print media outlets&nbsp; following new restrictions and many opted for\nonline news services. Thousands of professional journalists lost their jobs and\nmany left their country for safer places to practice journalism. Afghan women\njournalists have to face the worst situation as they are restricted from various\noutdoor activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Financial crisis is looming large over the Afghan media\nas the newspapers lost readership and commercial advertisement revenues\ndrastically in the last four months. Almost half of the media outlets including\nradio and televisions in Kabul had closed down their operations leaving\nthousands of media workers jobless that put them in acute crisis with no or\nlittle hope of revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEC expresses serious concern over the negative\ndevelopment to Afghan media. Lately a young reporter (Javid Yousufi) was\nstabbed in Kabul by the miscreants. Other localities like Balk, Takhar and\nKunduz also witnessed physical attacks on journalists in the last few days. The\nregime in Kabul must protect the journalists as they are doing their duties,\u201d\nsaid Blaise Lempen, secretary-general of PEC.\n\nHe also appreciated the management of TOLO news,\nthe country\u2019s first recognized news channel presenting news in Dari and Pashto\nlanguages since August 2010, for continuing to engage female reporter-news\nanchors defying the Taliban restrictions. Speaking to PEC\u2019s south Asia\nrepresentative Nava Thakuria, an Afghan lady reporter expressed optimism that\nother media outlets would also follow the same principle of not bowing down to\nthe Taliban regime.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nava Thakuria Geneva: As the year 2021 sets to finish its cycle, Afghanistan emerges as the most dangerous country for scribes with 12 journo-casualties, followed by Mexico (10 dead), Pakistan (7), India (6), etc. The south Asian nation also lost at least 10 media workers to the Covid-19 complications till date, said Press Emblem Campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}