DIGITAL PAKISTAN MONITORING – May 2020
DIGITAL PAKISTAN MONITOR A monthly report on trends relating to digital rights, policies, practices & media Tracking: Internet and digital policies and regulations Digitalization in…
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Second Sindhi Journalist Murdered In Sindh This Year
Sindhi-language journalist, Zulfiqar Mandrani, was shot and killed in Jacobabad district of southern Sindh province on 26 May 2020, local journalists and family confirmed on…
FN Dismayed At Death Of Pakistani Journalist In Sweden, Seeks Justice
ISLAMABAD, 08 May 2020: Freedom Network is deeply concerned at media reports that missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain’s dead body was found in a river…
E-Bulletin For April 2020
Media Monitoring April 2020 April 04: Media workers report facing difficulties in returning homes after performing their duties late at night. They were denied access…
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…
DIGITAL PAKISTAN MONITOR – March 2020
A monthly report on trends relating to digital rights, policies, practices & media Tracking: Internet and digital policies and regulations Digitalization in governance and…
Court Frees Convicts In Daniel Pearl’s Murder Case
The Sindh High Court verdict on appeals of four convicts of murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl setting three of them free and converting death…
E-Bulletin For March 2020
Media Monitoring Report – March 2020 02 March: Rights groups, including Freedom Network, boycott government consultation over new regulations aiming at taking full control of…
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…
E-Bulletin For February 2020
Media Monitoring Report – February 2020 Feb 01: PEMRA slaps Rs.1 million fine on Channel 92 for “maligning” advisor to PM Imran Khan. https://www.dawn.com/news/1531876/pemra-slaps-rs1-million-fine-on-channel-92-for-maligning-sapm-zulfi-bukhari Feb…
E-Bulletin For January 2020
Media Monitoring Report – January 2020 Jan 03: Sindh High Court stops police from registering cases against a journalist without court’s permission. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2129389/1-shc-bars-police-registering-cases-journalist-without-courts-permission/ Jan 08:…
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…
DIGITAL PAKISTAN MONITOR – February 2020
A monthly report on trends relating to digital rights, policies, practices & media Tracking: Internet and digital policies and regulations Digitalization in governance and…
New Rules To Regulate Social Media Platforms Harmful To Free Speech
The Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020, believed the Federal Cabinet has approved secretly, have destined Pakistan to live without Internet freedom, citizens’ privacy…
Tightening State Controls Harming Pakistani Media
M. Ziauddin In its 72 years of mostly perilous existence, the Pakistani media has seen it all. From special coercive laws to blatant censorship of…
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…
DIGITAL PAKISTAN MONITOR – January 2020
A monthly report on trends relating to digital rights, policies, practices & media Tracking: Internet and digital policies and regulations Digitalization in governance and socio-economic…
Citizens Groups, Journalists’ Body & Others Reject PEMRA’s Draconian Proposed Draft Regulations On Web TV & Other Allied Attempts
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY CITIZENS AND STAKEHOLDERS On government attempts to curtail freedom of expression, right to information and digital rights; and appropriation of internet and…
E-Bulletin For December 2019
Media Monitoring December 2019 Dec 04: A few dozen unidentified people stage protest against Dawn newspaper outside its Islamabad bureau over publication of news report…
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…