Afghanistan: Journalists fined for language debate

Written byAdil Nurmakov
Read this post in فارسی, বাংলা
Posted 18 February 2008 19 years ago

Sanjar reports that three Afghanistani journalists working for government-owned media have been fined for using Persian words that are not approved by cultural policy.

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