Kammala wannan magana: A karkashin mulkin Zahir Shah, ana mutunta hakkokin bil'adama. Tun daga shekarar 1949, Firayim Ministan Afghanistan Shah Mahmud Khan, ya kara 'yancin' yan jarida, amma ba da daɗewa ba aka juyar da waɗannan matakan. Dokar Latsawa wacce aka aiwatar a watan Yulin 1965, ta ba da 'yanci sosai ga' yan jarida a karon farko. Duk da yake mafi yawan 'yan jarida suna da' yanci, a wasu lokuta Sarki ya rufe kafofin watsa labarai daga masu adawa da aka yi la'akari da barazana. Jamhuriyar Kwaminisanci ta Khalq da ta mallaki Afghanistan bayan
Juyin Juya Halin Saur a shekarar 1978 ya kasance mai zalunci, yana murkushe adawa da karfi. Gwamnati ta yi garkuwa da kuma kashe dubban fursunoni, 'yan adawa fararen hula.