Social Media Activist Goes Missing In Karachi
FN Threat Data Analysis – January 2021 A social media activist is among 14 other journalists who faced different categories of threats, including kidnapping, detention,…
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Two Journalists Murdered In December 2020
FN Threat Data Analysis – December 2020 A Christian journalist in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and district correspondent in Bahawalpur were murdered as 18 other cases…
Police Harass Journalists To Frustrate PDM Protest
FN Threat Data Analysis – November 2020 Numerous reports of attacks and harassment against journalists and media came about in November 2020. Four journalists reportedly…
Six Journalists Escape Assassination Bids During October 2020
FN Threat Data Analysis – October 2020 Various reports of threats, attacks and harassment against journalists and media organizations in Pakistan were reported during October…
Woman Journalist Among Two Killed
FN Threat Data Analysis – September 2020 A woman journalist is among two journalists killed and 13 other journalists faced different kind of threats ranging…
Journalists Survive Murder & Kidnapping Attempts
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2020 Two journalists, including an editor of local newspaper in Peshawar, escaped attempt to murder as 12 cases of…
Abducted Matiullah Jan Returns Home After 12 Hours
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2020 A social media activist who was asking hard questions through his Facebook and Twitter accounts was shot…
PM Khan Adviser Dr Gill “Abuses” Journalist For Hard Questions
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2020 Twelve cases of attempt to murder, detention, arrests, torture, offline, online harassment and legal cases against journalists…
Eight Cases Of Threats, Including Murder, Targeting Journalists In May 2020
FN Threat Data Analysis – May 2020 A second journalist was murdered in Sindh province this year as eight cases of different threat categories against…
Two Journalists Escape Attempts On Their Lives
FN Threat Data Analysis – April 2020 Two journalists escaped attempt on their lives as a total of 15 violations, including arrests, detention, offline…
Serious Threats To Journalists in March 2020
FN Threat Data Analysis – March 2020 Arrest of an editor-in-chief of the country’s largest media group in alleged land scam, killing of a journalist’s…
Sindhi Journalist Found Dead In Mysterious Circumstances
FN Threat Data Analysis – February 2020 A senior journalist in interior Sindh was found dead in mysterious circumstances while a tribal journalist receiving life-threatening…
Police Register 17 Cases Against One Journalist In Sindh
FN Threat Data Analysis – January 2020 The Sindh High Court ordered local police to not register any case against a journalist without the court’s…
27-Year-Old Woman Journalist Killed For Pursuing Journalism Carrier
FN Threat Data Analysis – October-November 2019 Twenty-two cases of threats, including murder of 27-year-old woman journalist, disappearance of citizen journalist, verbal and written life…
11 Cases Reported Against Journalists During September 2019
FN Threat Data Analysis – SEPTEMBER 2019 Punjab, Sindh and federal territory Islamabad witnessed all the 11 cases, including murder, detention, written and verbal threats,…
Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists Goes Unchecked In Pakistan
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2019 A journalist in Punjab province was killed at doorstep while two others survived attempted murder in Balochistan and…
Censorship, Online & Offline Harassment Of Journalists
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2019 Five cases of attacks, injuries to two journalists, a legal case against a journalist and offline and online…
A Journalist, Blogger Murdered In June 2019
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2019 A journalist and a blogger were killed while 15 other information practioners faced, arrest, attacks and verbal threats…
Journalist Killed In Sindh Province
FN Threat Data Analysis – May 2019 A journalist was murdered, another survived attempt to murder while seven other cases of arrests, offline harassment, verbal…
April 2019: Dangerous Month For Journalists
FN Threat Data Analysis – April 2019 One journalist in a remote town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was killed while twelve other cases of abduction,…