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 21 June, By: Editorial Staff  
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15 June, By: Editorial Staff News update on Iranian crisis from Kabulpress sources in Iran

14 June, By: Editorial Staff Afghan government to block websites "against the Afghani culture and Islamic rules”

3 June, By: Robert Maier New photo of jailed journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh released to Kabul Press

17 May, By: Editorial Staff

Afghan children asylum seekers sent back to the firing line; silence from the UN and UNHCR

 16 June, By: Basir Ahang

Hundreds of Thousands of Demonstrators clog Tehran streets

15 June, By: Robert Maier

Social unrest continues in Iran after questionable election results

14 June, By: Robert Maier

16-year old Afghan girl victim of ’honor killing’ in Germany

14 May, By: Deepali Gaur Singh

Why Afghanistan’s Family Shia Status law must be changed

4 May, By: Zareen Taj

Former U.S. Air Force Captain reveals how U.S. State Department trains employees to humiliate and demean local cultures

 28 May, By: Matthew Nasuti

Asadullah Khalid’s Mafia

3 May, By: Kamran Mir Hazar, Robert Maier

Afghan Wireless Company Sale Deal Dead?

1 May, By: Robert Maier

Afghan Wireless Company and its CEO Ehsan Bayat sued for $400 million by former business partners

25 April, By: Robert Maier

Former U.N. administrator accused of embezzling half-million dollars during stint in Afghanistan

28 March, By: Kamran Mir Hazar, Robert Maier

Oppression of Hazara in Afghanistan

 1 May  

RETHINK Afghanistan

27 February

A demonstration of Fox News’ agenda of trashing Obama

10 July 2008

Kabul Journey

30 April 2008

Women’s rights in the U.S. Military

 21 June, By: Bethany Niebauer  

Hold up, boy!

29 May, By: Massoud Qiam

A Great Leader, Who Smiled to the Nation, Was Killed but Also Reborn

25 May, By: Hafizullah Khoram , Marc Seltzer

How will Karzai win the election?

19 May, By: Naseh

Should Obama release military abuse photos?

16 May, By: Robert Maier

Our Nation Deserves Widespread Positive Changes, Security, Reconstruction and Freedom

An open letter from the people of Afghanistan to Barack Obama on the upcoming Afghan presidential elections

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19 February

Greek: Homeless and Human Rights Abuse

8 February

Budd MacKenzie, an American helping Afghans peacefully

25 January, By: Nathan Hartle

50 US attacks on Pakistan have claimed 450 lives

23 January, By: Farooq Sulehria

Can Barack Obama read this story?

22 January

Afghan presidential candidate focuses campaign on government corruption

18 January

2009 World Report: Obama Should Emphasize Human Rights

15 January

The year that was…in the subcontinent and what does it mean for Afghanistan

11 January, By: Deepali Gaur Singh

JewishPeaceNews.net: Israel’s war on Palestine

5 January, By: Jewish Peace News

One Year After the Death of Sayed Mustafa Kazimi Unanswered Questions

4 January, By: M. Amin Wahidi, Marc Seltzer

A detailed history of the Afghan Drug Trade

24 December 2008, By: Reid Smith

A Real Solution to the World’s Illegal Drug Markets

20 December 2008, By: Walton Cook

Another blow to enforcement of tobacco control policies in India

1 December 2008, By: Bobby Ramakant

Afghanistan: Stop move toward wide use of executions

13 November 2008

AFGHANISTAN’S RELUCTANT ALLY

28 October 2008, By: Roohullah Rahimi

A Festival of Afghan Documentary Films in Germany

25 October 2008, By: Robert Maier

Responding to Human Rights Violations

8 October 2008, By: Kamran Mir Hazar, Marc Seltzer

Kabul Press Interviews Sarah Chayse

2 October 2008, By: Robert Maier

A declaration & petition for action regarding the invasion of the Taliban under cover of the Kochies against the national interest in Hazarajat, Afghanistan

24 September 2008, By: Caitlin Quigley

International Peace Day 2008

17 September 2008

Obama, McCain and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy in Afghanistan

15 September 2008, By: David Shams

The Bookseller of Kabul Replies to Åsne Seierstad

5 September 2008, By: Farooq Sulehria

Respected American journalists arrested at Republican Convention

1 September 2008, By: Robert Maier

International appeal to support the immediate release of a young Afghan Journalist

23 August 2008

Congratulations to Rohullah Nikpai

20 August 2008, By: Robert Maier

Should Buddhas Blasted by the Taliban Be Rebuilt?

18 July 2008

A demonstration of Fox News’ agenda of trashing Obama

10 July 2008

Letter documents dissention in Taliban leadership

7 July 2008, By: Robert Maier

Ex-Taliban fighter tells of training, cash, orders from Pakistani military

30 June 2008, By: A.R. Khan

Fear is the real enemy

30 June 2008, By: Robert Maier

Noted Shia historian/scholar attacked in Kabul by "Family Law" supporters

14 May, By: Editorial Staff

Emroz TV presenter freed on bail after being held because of complaint by Iran

22 April

Authorities arrest two TV presenters in Kabul

24 March

Afghanistan: 20-Year Sentence for Journalist Upheld

11 March

CPJ urges Karzai to free Afghan journalist who is unjustly jailed

10 March

Javed Yazamy, Afghan fixer and freelance journalist, slain in Kandahar

10 March

Afghan Supreme Court secretly sentences young journalist to 20 years in prison for "blasphemy"

8 March, By: Robert Maier

Why the Payman daily was closed?

7 February

Traffic estimated and page rank for 59 Afghan websites

25 January

Journalist unfairly held in custody

21 January

Reporters Without Borders gives Kabul news conference, urges government to make press freedom a priority

15 January

Abducted Journalist Released in Afghanistan

10 November 2008

Call for immediate release of young journalist arrested exactly one year ago

27 October 2008

In shameful decision, Kabul appeal court replaces young journalist’s death sentence with 20 years in prison

21 October 2008

Traffic estimated and page rank for 51 Afghan websites

12 October 2008

Canadian Fellowships in Communications offered for Afghans

9 October 2008, By: Robert Maier

ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize

8 October 2008, By: Robert Maier

Interview with Kamran Mir Hazar

21 September 2008, By: Robert Maier

President Asked to Intercede in Case of Ex-Journalist Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Publishing Translation of Koran

13 September 2008, By: Robert Maier

Were journalists targeted in Minneapolis during the Republican Convention?

6 September 2008, By: Robert Maier

The eight most threatened journalists in Afghanistan

1 September 2008, By: Kamran Mir Hazar

Shakeb Isaar update— life in Sweden

31 August 2008, By: Deepali Gaur Singh

Afghanistan: Protect media freedom from intelligence agency interference

1 August 2008, By: Robert Maier

Mohammad Nasir Fayyaz, Ariana TV Journalist Detained by Afghan Intelligence Service

29 July 2008, By: Robert Maier

Hundreds of Afghan journalists and writers demonstrate in Kabul in support of journalist under death sentence

10 July 2008, By: Reporters Without Borders

Kabulpress.org website hacked and damaged

7 July 2008, By: Robert Maier

Afghan Radio journalist illegally detained by officials in Daikondi Province

19 June 2008, By: Robert Maier

Trial of Afghan journalist facing death sentence delayed fourth time

16 June 2008, By: Robert Maier

Trial of Afghan journalist facing death sentence delayed fourth time

16 June 2008, By: Robert Maier

CPJ: As Karzai seeks aid, a call for press freedom

11 June 2008

Afghanistan: Open letter to President Hamid Karzai before the Paris reconstruction conference

11 June 2008

BBC journalist killed in the south of the country

9 June 2008

HOPES DASHED FOR AFGHAN JOURNALIST’S RELEASE

2 June 2008, By: IWPR

Afghan journalist freed after being held for 86 days in Iran

30 May 2008, By: Reporters Without Borders

Parwez Khambaksh Kabul appeal delayed again

25 May 2008, By: Robert Maier

Al-Jazeera cameraman’s lawyer speaks about client’s ordeal in Guantánamo

24 May 2008

Afghan journalist begins death penalty appeal

19 May 2008

Afghan reporter facing death sentence denies blasphemy

18 May 2008

AFGHANISTAN: Appeal hearing delay for journalist under sentence of death

14 May 2008

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3 May 2008

AFGHANISTAN

3 May 2008

Respected Afghan refugee writer/educational TV producer being forced from Italian refugee shelter

22 April 2008, By: Robert Maier

Information Ministry and Council of Ulemas mounts offensive against independent broadcaster

2 April 2008, By: Reporters Without Borders

Noted Afghan writer stalked by gunman in his Kabul home

2 April 2008, By: Robert Maier

Privately-owned radio station near Kabul attacked by gunmen

31 March 2008, By: IFJ

Journalist under death sentence moved to Kabul ahead of his appeal

29 March 2008

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Traffic estimated and page rank for 59 Afghan websites
25 January

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