NGO condemns killing of seven media workers in Afghanistan

The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) on Thursday strongly condemned the Wednesday attack on a minibus in which seven media workers from Afghan TV channel TOLO were killed, just months after the Taliban declared the network a legitimate "military target".

PEC also urged the international community, on the eve of the Paris meeting organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) on the safety of journalists, to take concrete steps to bring the perpetrators of heinous attacks against media and journalists to justice.

According to the organization, the latest suicide bombing attack against the TV minibus in Kabul brings the number of media workers killed up to date in 2016 to 13.

PEC added that the other six more journalists being killed were two Iraqis, two Pakistanis, Almigdad Mojalli in Yemen and the French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui in the terrorist attack in Ouagadougou.

"We warned at the beginning of the year that the environment is very risky. Civilians and journalists are targeted by terrorists groups all around the world. It is a very worrying situation", Blaise Lempen, PEC Secretary-General, noted.

Founded in June 2004 by a group of journalists from several countries, PEC is a non-governmental organization with special consultative UN status, whose aim is to strengthen the legal protection and safety of journalists in zones of conflict and civil unrest or in dangerous missions. Enditem