Annual Prison Census 2010 - Afghanistan
| Publisher | Committee to Protect Journalists |
| Publication Date | 8 December 2010 |
| Cite as | Committee to Protect Journalists, Annual Prison Census 2010 - Afghanistan, 8 December 2010, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4d4977ec32.html [accessed 5 June 2023] |
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Journalists in prison as of December 1, 2010
Afghanistan: 1
Hojatullah Mujadadi, Radio Kapisa FM, Radio Television Afghanistan
Imprisoned: September 18, 2010
Afghan intelligence agents arrested Mujadadi in northeastern Kapisa province as he was covering the provincial governor's visit to a voting station, news reports said. He was seized about the same time two other Afghan journalists were arrested by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on a vague accusation of Taliban links.
After an international outcry, ISAF issued a statement saying that all three were being released "without conditions," but the Afghan National Directorate of Security did not free Mujadadi, according to multiple news reports.
Mujadadi had recently taken over as Radio Kapisa's news director and had aggressively covered events throughout the province, where insurgent activity had been on the increase, according to news reports. No formal charges had been publicly disclosed by late year.
