{"id":81288,"date":"2016-01-24T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-radio-television-union-demands-special-security-for-journalists\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:33:39","slug":"afghanistan-radio-television-union-demands-special-security-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-radio-television-union-demands-special-security-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Radio Television Union demands special security for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Union of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), while demanding a special security unit for the safety of journalists, asserted that any damage inflicted upon free press is actually a blow to the democratic values of the country.<\/p>\n<p>RTA Union made these remarks in a press communiqu&eacute; here on Monday. It urged upon government to establish security forces&rsquo; special unit to ensure the safety of journalists in the country. Last week, a suicide attack on Tolo TV staffers killed 7 staffers from Mobi Group and injured 27 civilians. This incident has caused growing concerns over the security of journalists and media houses.<\/p>\n<p>International community, government and media organization expressed strong reaction to the last week&rsquo;s suicide attack and strongly condemned it.<\/p>\n<p>The RTA Union has urged President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to fully support promises made in regard to the liberty and safety of media professionals.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the government should protect freedom of speech and pave the way for&nbsp;close cooperation between government institutions and media so that people remain informed of the situation and should not be misled by terrorist groups&rsquo; propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further said that attacks on civilians, in particular, on reporters and journalists are against humanity and against Islam and international laws.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), while demanding a special security unit for the safety of journalists, asserted that any damage inflicted upon free press is actually a blow to the democratic values of the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288","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=81288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}