Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ezatullah Zawab" in English language version.
Local religious leaders demanded his arrest after he wrote an article in Meena accusing officials in the province's information, tourism and religious affairs departments of incompetence, according to Pajhwok and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA). AIJA said in a statement that the religious leaders considered the article to be an "insult." Journalist unions and press freedom groups across the country held meetings to protest Zawab's arrest.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Danish Karokhel is an IWPR editor/reporter in Kabul. Ezatullah Zawab recently completed an IWPR basic journalism training course in Jalalabad.[permanent dead link]
Hafizullah Gardesh is a staff reporter for IWPR in Kabul. Ezatullah Zawab and Bashir Gawkh are independent journalists from Jalalabad participating in IWPR's Loya Jirga reporting project.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Zawab was found unconscious at about 1 a.m. near Samarkhel, in the interior of Nangarhar province. "I was kidnapped by six men in Jalalabad and taken away gagged and blindfolded in a pickup," the veteran journalist said. They kept asking him why he insulted the mujahideen and Muslim clerics in his articles, and questioned him about his political sympathies.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Local religious leaders demanded his arrest after he wrote an article in Meena accusing officials in the province's information, tourism and religious affairs departments of incompetence, according to Pajhwok and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA). AIJA said in a statement that the religious leaders considered the article to be an "insult." Journalist unions and press freedom groups across the country held meetings to protest Zawab's arrest.
Zawab was found unconscious at about 1 a.m. near Samarkhel, in the interior of Nangarhar province. "I was kidnapped by six men in Jalalabad and taken away gagged and blindfolded in a pickup," the veteran journalist said. They kept asking him why he insulted the mujahideen and Muslim clerics in his articles, and questioned him about his political sympathies.