Afghanistan, March 20 -- The Afghanistan Journalists Center said Mahdi Ansari, a Kabul-based local journalist, has been released after spending one and a half years in Bagram prison, marking the end of a lengthy detention.
In a statement issued on Friday, the media watchdog welcomed his release and said Ansari's fundamental rights had been seriously violated during his imprisonment on allegations linked to media work.
The center said Ansari had been detained over accusations of cooperating with foreign media outlets, describing his case as another troubling example of mounting pressure on journalists in Afghanistan.
According to the report, Ansari disappeared on October 6 last year after returning from work in Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi neig...