Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

A special tribunal officials said on Thursday, that Afghanistan has convicted three of men who were allegedly involved into the murder of a BBC journalist, who was shot dead in the eastern province of Khost in 2018.

According to news reports, Ahmad Shah, who worked as a journalist in BBC for Pashto language services as well as worked for Reuters, was murdered in April, 2018, by an unidentified gunmen while Shah was on his way to home. The BBC reported that Shah was agency’s fifth staff member, who have been killed in war-torn Afghan country since the early 1990s.

A spokesperson for the attorney general office said the special anti-terrorism tribunal has sentenced death to one of the convicts, suspects of the killing of Shah, and other were sentenced to life imprisonment. The case has been now sent to Afghan’s higher court to further validate the ruling of tribunal, Jamshid Rasouly.

According to reports, defence lawyers were not available for immediate comment over the sentences to convicts, it was still unknown whether the lawyers would challenge the order or seek new trial in a higher court.

The Taliban denied any of their alleged role in the killing of Shah.

Shah died on the same day when two bombs has exploded in Kabul leading deaths of 26 people, which included nine journalists and photographers, a deadliest day for Afghanistan’s media workers.

The Islamic State (ISIS) militants group claimed the responsibility for the bomb attacks.

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