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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 18:06:04 EST
AFGHAN LEADER EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER MISTREATMENT OF JOURNALISTS
Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai has said he has
always been an advocate of the free press and expressed concern over the
recent mistreatment of journalists in Herat Province, "The Kabul Times"
reported on 2 April. Karzai said in a meeting in Kabul with three
correspondents who were expelled from the province or who left
voluntarily to protest the ill treatment of journalists (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 20 and 25 March 2003), that the mistreatment of journalists
by Herat Province authorities could negatively affect reconstruction
efforts and potentially damage the prestige of the Transitional
Administration. He told Ahmad Behzad of RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan,
Masud Hasanzadah of Voice of America, and Hadi Ghaffari of Iranian state
radio that he would instruct the Interior Ministry to ask the Herat
authorities to allow the journalists to resume their work in the
province. Behzad returned to Herat on 3 April, according to Radio Free
Afghanistan. AT
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