Pakistan A High Risk Country In Terms Of Media Pluralism
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 18 July 2019: A collaborative research study, the Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) Pakistan – carried out by the global media rights organization Reporters…
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How Pakistan’s legal system has failed the murdered journalists of Pakistan?
The Impunity of Crimes Against Journalists Pakistan Report 2018 High impunity – 26 journalists killed in Pakistan in 5 years, only 16 cases went…
RSF, FN Urge Caretaker PM To Ensure Media Covers #Elections2018 Freely
PARIS, July 2: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its local partner in Pakistan, Freedom Network (FN), sent a joint letter to caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul…
Life as a Woman Journalist in Pakistan: Threats, Harassment And Rejection
ADNAN REHMAT This book has been produced by Freedom Network, a Pakistani civil liberties group working on freedom of expression and access to information issues….
Late Asma Jehangir: A Vacuum Hard To Fill
Haroon Rashid Pakistan has lost an iconic human rights defender and a brave voice. There can be no two opinions about it. The usual rhetoric…
Freedom Network wins prestigious French Human Rights Prize
PARIS, December 12, 2017: French Justice Minister Ms Nicole Belloubet on Tuesday (December 12, 2017) handed Freedom Network, a Pakistani civic liberties organization working on issues of freedom of expression,…
Blanket Blackout Of TV Media And Social Media In Pakistan
In a major act of censorship, the Pakistan government enforced a blanket blackout of news and current TV channels as well as a shutdown…
SPECIAL REPORT: BLACKOUT IN BALOCHISTAN: MEDIA REPORTING IN FEAR, LIVING UNDER THREAT
November 2: International Day to End Impunity of Crimes against Journalists The Worsening State of Impunity against Media in Balochistan: Special Report by Freedom Network…
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances: States That Make Journalists Disappear
On August 30, the eve of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals that a growing number of states…
Second Journalist Killed In Less Than A Month In Pakistan
Unidentified people target-killed young journalist Bakhshish Elahi of Kay2 newspaper in a broad daylight on a street of Haripur city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “We…
2017 World Press Freedom Index – Tipping Point?
The 2017 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reflects a world in which attacks on the media have become commonplace and…
UN Secretary General Pledges To Take Action On Journalist Safety
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to take steps to address the urgent issue…
Family of US Writer Paul Overby Asking For Information
Paris-based media rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called 25 January 2017 for the immediate release of Paul Overby, an American independent writer who was…
2016 RSF World Press Freedom Index – Leaders Paranoid About Journalists
Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and…
Court Order Sentencing Murderer Of Journalist Ayub Khattak To Life Imprisonment
Freedom Network obtained attested copy of the verdict of a court in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into a murder case involving journalist Ayub Khattak,…
2015: The Year of Censorship in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: If the year 2014 was the most murderous year in Pakistan’s history with 14 journalists and media assistants killed that year, the year 2015…
Online Freedom 2015: Pakistan – The State Of Insecurity
Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net report, conducted in 60 countries, examines the civil liberty, freedom and censorship trends in Pakistan over the past year….
Renewed Attacks On Journalists & Media Workers In Pakistan – 2 killed, 2 Injured
There seems to be a spurt in attacks on journalists and media workers in Pakistan that has seen one killed and two injured within two…
PEMRA COC Aims Censorship In Pakistan
Freedom Network has expressed serious concern over some aspects of the recently introduced code of conduct for media on August 20 by the Pakistan’s Electronic…
RSF, FN Urge Legislators To Overhaul Draconian Cyber-Crimes Bill In Pakistan
Alarmed by the draconian nature of a cyber-crime bill that a Pakistani parliamentary committee approved last week, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner, Freedom…