KABUL -- Thirteen journalists were killed in Afghanistan in 2016, the deadliest year ever for Afghan media, the Kabul-based Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) said, according to a Friday (January 20) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) report.
"2017 could be worse," AJSC chairman Najib Sharifi said, according to RFE/RL.
The Taliban drastically stepped up attacks against media in late 2015, according to the AJSC.
President Ashraf Ghani is committed to a free press, a Ghani spokesman said.
