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Six students yesterday completed the first module of a six-month radio journalism program offered by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Kabul, Afghanistan.

On April 7 RFE/RL correspondent Ahmad Behzad was again forced to leave the western Afghan city of Herat.

Ismail Khan, demanded yesterday through his security chief, Nasim Alawi, that RFE/RL correspondent Ahmad Behzad leave Herat and not return.

RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine expressed dismay about an assault on Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent Ahmad Behzad by officials with the regional government in Herat.

RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine released the following statement today, in reaction to the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

Top executives at both Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America deplored the March 7 beatings of two journalists working for their Uzbek broadcast services.

RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine expressed his profound concern today about the safety and welfare of Orazmuhammet Yklymov, a freelance journalist with RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service in Moscow.

RFE/RL’s Bulgarian language service and Bulgaria’s biggest private television broadcaster, bTV.

RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine expressed his dismay today at the death of Tigran Naghdalian, prominent Armenian journalist, who was killed in Yerevan on December 28, 2002.