new rules on "disturbing" Afghanistan images

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62C16M20100313

excerpts:

…Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of “disturbing” images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security operations.

The new rules for media were agreed over the past week after an outcry over restrictions imposed on March 1 by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) spy agency that threatened to arrest journalists who film attacks.

The NDS had imposed the ban on international as well as local media, saying the images emboldened the militants and allowed them to gain tactical information. The move outraged Afghan media and rights groups who said the public would be deprived of vital security information.

…The resolution is based on an existing article of Afghan Media Law which bans broadcasting “disturbing” images of an attack. The law does not define “disturbing.”

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