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RFE/RL mourns the violent death of journalist Mohammad Ilyas Dayee in Afghanistan

November 12, 2020

The journalists and staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) mourn the violent death today of their colleague Mohammad Ilyas Dayee, a journalist for RFE/RL's Dari- and Pashto-language Radio Free Afghanistan service, who was killed in a targeted bomb attack in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province. His younger brother, a former reporter for Deutsche Welle, was also injured in the attack. Read More