Ezatullah Zawab

Ezatullah Zawab is a journalist from Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.cite news
url=http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index.php?id=290
title=CLJ: Vote boycott halts approval of amended draft
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publisher=Kabul Reconstructions
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date=January 1, 2003
accessdate=2008-02-20
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url=http://www.ifj-asia.org/page/afghanistan050909.html
title=Missing journalist found beaten and unconscious
publisher=International Federation of Journalists
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date=September 9, 2005
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In 2003 Ezatullah Zawab was selected by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting as a candidate for journalism training.cite news
url=http://iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=153778&apc_state=heniarr2003
title=Tough Cure for Mental Problems
publisher=Institute for War and Peace Reporting
author=Danish Karokhel, Ezatullah Zawab
date=June 3 2003
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=Danish Karokhel is an IWPR editor/reporter in Kabul. Ezatullah Zawab recently completed an IWPR basic journalism training course in Jalalabad.] cite news
url=http://www.e-ariana.com/ariana/eariana.nsf/aa8e81dc17f7b0eb87256c030066e73b/314f058d00eb419c87256dff000427a5?OpenDocument
title=Election "Cattle Market" for Delegates
publisher=Institute for War and Peace Reporting
author=Ezatullah Zawab, Hafizullah Gardesh, Farida Nekzad
date=December 16 2003
accessdate=2008-02-20
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url=http://iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=152319&apc_state=heniarr2003
title=Delegate Profile: Deputy Chairman, Mirwais Yasini
publisher=Institute for War and Peace Reporting
author=Hafizullah Gardesh, Ezatullah Zawab, Farida Nekzad
date=December 28 2003
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=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.]

On September 2 2005 Ezatullah Zawab was apprehended by local officials.cite news
url=http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Afghan06sept05na.html
title= AFGHANISTAN: CPJ condemns journalist's arrest
publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists
date=September 6, 2005
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=] The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said:"Zawab is a staff correspondent for the independent news service Pajhwok Afghan News and editor of the monthly Meena magazine."

CPJ said his apprehension was triggered by article he had published which were regarded as critical of local clerics and local officials.

Ann Cooper, CPJ's Executive Director, wrote:

Ezatullah Zawab was found beaten and unconscious in a ditch a week after his capture.cite news
url=http://www.cpj.org/cases05/asia_cases05/afghan.html
title=Ezatullah Zawab, Pajhwok Afghan News and Meena: IMPRISONED
publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists
date=October 17 2005
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=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
url=http://www.noticias.info/Archivo/2005/200509/20050909/20050909_96921.shtm
title=Afghanistan: Journalist freed after being held captive for six days
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publisher=Noticias Info
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date=September 8 2005
accessdate=2008-02-10
quote=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.] He reported: "...that unidentified gunmen from Jalalabad picked him up and held him blindfolded in a basement. He was threatened and interrogated before being released."

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