New Coalition Launched To Combat Impunity Of Crimes Against Journalists
ISLAMABAD, August 8, 2019: A new initiative has been launched to facilitate establishment of a collaborative national safety mechanism to combat impunity of crimes against…
Category Archives: Violence against media
Two Journalists Go Missing; Another Booked Under PECA Law
Freedom Network is extremely worried for two missing young journalists – reporter Matloob Hussain Mosavi and TV cameraman Syed Ali Mubashir Naqvi – who were…
Second Journalist Killed For Reporting On Drug
Hours after his story on arrest of alleged drug dealer was published in K2 Times newspaper in Haripur district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, young…
Reporting Takes Young Journalist’s Life In Punjab
Young journalist Abid Hussain in Dewan Sahib town in Borewala tehsil of Vehari district in Punjab province succumbed to injuries a day after he was…
Chronicles of Shame: The Changing Threat Patterns and Demographics of Pakistani Media Landscape
ISLAMABAD, May 1, 2018: An award-winning Pakistan-based media rights watchdog Freedom Network has recorded over 150 cases of attacks and violations against media and its…
Pakistan Is Censoring Media Massively
Just months before the nation goes to general elections this year, mainstream as well as regional media is witnessing increased censorship brought together through court…
FN Concerned At Mysterious Disappearances Of Journalists In Interior Sindh
Two Sindhi journalists were reported missing after people in plain clothes and police uniforms whisked them away from interior Sindh province where feudal, tribal chieftain,…
Key Media Stakeholders Agree To Draft New Journalists Protection Law
Freedom Network welcomes unanimity reached among key stakeholders to protect journalists and media workers emphasizing the need for safety-focused law with federal government scrapping its…
SPECIAL IMPUNITY REPORT: Full Risks, Zero Justice
Journalists Risk Lives and Livelihoods in Pakistan Special Report on Impunity for Crimes against Journalists in Pakistan – 2017 Crimes against journalists are a thriving…
Missing Tribal Journalists Return Home
Update – October 17, 2017 The two missing tribal journalists – Shah Nawaz Tarakzai and Islam Gul Afridi – returned home on October 16, 2017, after abduction on…
Journalist Rana Tanvir Survives Attack After “Death Threat” Over His Writings
Senior journalist Rana Tanvir, who is taking up issues of religious minorities and human rights in his writings, was run over by a car on…
Freedom Network Decries ‘DawnLeaks’ Recommendations
The federal government released on Wednesday – May 10, 2017 – administrative decisions taken after the findings of an Inquiry Committee probing leaks of meeting…
Journalists Demand Early Federal & Provincial Laws On Their Safety
ISLAMABAD: December 27, 2016: The 20,000-strong community of working journalists in Pakistan on Tuesday (December 27, 2016) demanded the federal and provincial governments to expedite…
Sindh Rangers Tortures Samaa TV Reporter In Karachi
A senior Samaa TV reporter was treated inhumanly after Paramilitary force Sindh Rangers picked him up outside his residence in Karachi on October 18, 2016,…
Bizarre Attack On Media By Political Party Injures Six TV Journalists In Karachi
The journalists of six mainstream independent current affairs televisions channels in Pakistan, the office of one of the channels and the Karachi Press Club, came…
WPFD2016 Adopts Declaration on Press Freedom, Access To Information & Cultural Diversity
More than 1000 media practitioners and stake holders, including representatives of governments called on UNESCO’s 195 Member States to “reaffirm that press freedom and the…
Judicial Commission Fails To Identify Attackers Of Hamid Mir
A judicial commission set up in Pakistan to investigate a debilitating attack on prominent journalist Hamid Mir has not been able to determine the actual…
Media Leaders Recommend Action Points To Protect Journalists
PARIS: Media leaders from around the globe gathered February 5 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to strengthen the safety of journalists enlisting possible actions…
‘International Declaration & Best Practices’ To Promote Journalists’ Safety Launched
GENEVA, Dec 9, 2015 – The International Press Institute (IPI), Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN), Geneva Global Media and the Geneva Press Club presented 9…
EXCLUSIVE: Govt Says 46 Journalists Killed In Last Five Years In Pakistan
The federal government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif released, for the first time, officials figures of journalists killed, injured or kidnapped in the last five…