Taliban Execute Government Employee and Radio Journalist in Farah City (2019)
Incident- Date
- Jan 5, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Farah: Farah
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.4474774615319
Longitude: 62.1455285395971
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Farah
- Town/Village
- Outskirts of Farah City, Farah province
- Types of incident
- Arbitrary Detention
- Arrest
- Execution
- Extrad-Judicial Killing
- Hostage taking
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Denying a fair trial
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On January 5, 2019, Taliban fighters arrested 13 people on the outskirts of Farah City, suspecting them of being government employees. Government employee and local radio journalist Javeed Noori was recognized by the Taliban and executed on the spot. The remaining 12 individuals were taken into custody. This incident represents the Taliban's systematic targeting of government workers and media personnel.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 14
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