Among the 21 cases reported included seven legal cases – the highest number. In Freedom Network’s annual State of Press Freedom Report 2021, legal cases against journalists emerged as the biggest threat.
FN Threat Data Analysis – March 2021 A young reporter Ajay Kumar Lalwani was shot dead in Sindh province and another was detained in Karachi…
FN Threat Data Analysis – February 2021 A digital journalist escaped attempt of murder in Balochistan and a mob attacked head offices of Jang newspaper…
FN Threat Data Analysis – January 2021 A social media activist is among 14 other journalists who faced different categories of threats, including kidnapping, detention,…
FN Threat Data Analysis – December 2020 A Christian journalist in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and district correspondent in Bahawalpur were murdered as 18 other cases…
FN Threat Data Analysis – November 2020 Numerous reports of attacks and harassment against journalists and media came about in November 2020. Four journalists reportedly…
FN Threat Data Analysis – October 2020 Various reports of threats, attacks and harassment against journalists and media organizations in Pakistan were reported during October…
FN Threat Data Analysis – September 2020 A woman journalist is among two journalists killed and 13 other journalists faced different kind of threats ranging…
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2020 Two journalists, including an editor of local newspaper in Peshawar, escaped attempt to murder as 12 cases of…
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2020 A social media activist who was asking hard questions through his Facebook and Twitter accounts was shot…
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2020 Twelve cases of attempt to murder, detention, arrests, torture, offline, online harassment and legal cases against journalists…
FN Threat Data Analysis – May 2020 A second journalist was murdered in Sindh province this year as eight cases of different threat categories against…
FN Threat Data Analysis – April 2020 Two journalists escaped attempt on their lives as a total of 15 violations, including arrests, detention, offline…
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…
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…
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…
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…
FN Threat Data Analysis – SEPTEMBER 2019 Punjab, Sindh and federal territory Islamabad witnessed all the 11 cases, including murder, detention, written and verbal threats,…
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2019 A journalist in Punjab province was killed at doorstep while two others survived attempted murder in Balochistan and…
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2019 Five cases of attacks, injuries to two journalists, a legal case against a journalist and offline and online…