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Afghanistan: Unchecked Violence Threatens Election

9 September, 2010 - 19:41

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 9, 2010

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Insurgent attacks on candidates and poor government security protection risk severely compromising Afghanistan's September 18, 2010 parliamentary election, Human Rights Watch said today. Candidates - as well as their staff members and election officials - face assassinations, kidnappings, and intimidation by insurgents as well as by rival candidates. Women candidates are facing the highest level of intimidation.

This is the second parliamentary election since the fall of the Taliban. The first was in 2005.

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