{"id":78508,"date":"2018-06-20T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nai-urges-government-not-to-sacrifice-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:49:35","slug":"nai-urges-government-not-to-sacrifice-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nai-urges-government-not-to-sacrifice-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nai urges government not to sacrifice free speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"350\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/6- June\/20\/Taleban.jpg\" width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Nai &ndash; Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan organization on Tuesday urged the government not to sacrifice free press in efforts amid ceasefire in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mujib Khalwatgar, chief executive of Nai, shared the findings of a study in this connection with journalists. He said the entry of the Taliban rebels in main cities has sparked concerns among masses. He said press editors saw the &lsquo;unplanned&rsquo; peace initiative, spontaneous and unconditional ceasefire as threat to the press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The study is based on interviews with 60 online and video media organizations in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Jalalabad. He said the media professionals remained skeptical and fearful throughout the ceaefire.<\/p>\n<p>Nai urged the government to consider freedom of speech and free speech as &lsquo;red line&rsquo; during peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Nai \u2013 Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan organization on Tuesday urged the government not to sacrifice free press in efforts amid ceasefire in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}