KABUL (SW): Nai-Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, a local press freedom organisation, on Monday said cases of violence against journalists have increased this year.
This comes as the Afghanistan Center for Journalists reported a day earlier that such cases have dropped by 50 per cent. The revelation by Nai has created confusions about the merit of these contradictory statistics.
Some media right organizations believe the incoherence of statistics is the result of inconsistency, and lack of cooperation between the organizations compiling these statistics.
According to Hafeez Barakzai, director for Journalists’ Council, the inconsistency regarding the statistics provided on the violence against journalists and media activists is the result of non-cooperation among different organisations. He also blamed that some organisations gather this information with discrimination.
Nader Ashkan and Hayat Amanat, two working journalists, said uncoordinated statistics provided by Afghanistan Center for Journalists and Nai shows these organizations are not serious about the conditions of journalists and media activists. “No field research takes place regarding violence against media activists”, informed Ashkan and Amanat.
This is not the first time that such incoherent statistics are published by media supporting organizations.
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