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…
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Safety Advisory For Pakistani Journalists Covering #Elections2018
Freedom Network, Islamabad-based Pakistani media watchdog organisation, releases Safety Advisory to sensitise journalists, photographers, cameramen, media assistants and their organisations on need to take measures…
E-Bulletin For June 2018
June 2018 June 03: The media teams of Jang and Geo were stopped from media coverage of a ceremony held at the Lahore Garrison University…
“Journalists’ Safety First:” PFUJ Secretary-General
Ghulam Mustafa Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has always been at the forefront of striving to win rights for journalists. Whether be a dictatorship or…
Seven Cases of Abduction, Arrest, Attack and Threats In June 2018
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2018 Seven cases of abduction, arrest, physical attack, verbal threats and break-in against journalists were documented during June 2018…
E-Bulletin For May 2018
Media Monitoring – May 2018 May 03: Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says his party will “end impunity” for crimes against journalist as…
Attack On Journalist In Zhob
By Hameedullah Sherani Journalist Assad Betani was beaten up by allegedly dozen of workers of Pakistan Muslim League – Q on April 7, 2018, in…
May Records More Attacks On Journalists Than April 2018
FN Threat Data Analysis – April-May 2018 Twenty-three cases of attempt to assassinate, arrests/detention/harassment, physical attacks, attack on home, verbal threats, censorship and legal cases…
E-Bulletin For April 2018
Media Monitoring April 2018 April 04: The Begowala police inserted Anti-Terrorism Act section to the murder case of journalist Zeeshan Butt of Sambrial (Sialkot district),…
Hafiz Hasnain: Jailed for Okara Farmers’ Coverage
Journalist Hafiz Hasnain Raza has spent almost 23 months behind bars since he was arrested on 26 April 2016 under terrorism charges for covering farmers’…
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…
E-Bulletin For March 2018
March 2018 March 02:AnjumMuneer Raja, who worked as sub-editor with Qaumi Pukarnewspaper, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Rawalpindi’s high security zone. https://www.dawn.com/news/1392728/journalist-employed-by-local-daily-shot-dead-in-rawalpindis-high-security-zone March…
Bara Press Club Reopens After Militancy Shut It Down Five Years Back
Ibrahim Shinwari The construction of Bara Press Club was completed in early 2009 only when it was shut down in September the same year after…
Two Journalists Killed As 15 Cases of Violations Against Media Practioners In March
FN Threat Data Analysis – March 2018 A total of 15 cases of murders, kidnapping, arrest, detaining, harassment, assault, attack on home, legal case, attack…
FN Slams Ban On Journalism In Orakzai Tribal Region
PESHAWAR, 20 March 2018: Journalists are barred from visiting or reporting Orakzai tribal district for last five months and local tribal journalists’ pleas to lift…
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,…
E-Bulletin For February 2018
February 2018 Feb 04: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s chairman Imran Khan threatens journalist upon asking question https://www.dawn.com/news/1387163/imrans-threatening-one-liner-startles-journalists Feb 05: Journalist Ghulam Akbar survives attack on his life…
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….
No Enabling Environment For Women Journalists In Pakistan: Asma
Award-winning journalist and TV anchor Asma Shirazi has said women journalists face safety and security issues and they are not provided equal opportunities in Pakistan…