18 Threat Cases Reported Against Journalists In August 2022
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2022 Three journalists were arrested, six other faced assaults, as many faced offline harassment as a total of 18…
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Two Journalists Murdered, Three Others Escape Attacks On Life
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2022 Two journalists were murdered, two others, including a woman journalist, escaped assassination attempts and as many injured in…
Threats Against Journalists Increase Under PM Shehbaz Govt
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2022 Nine journalists faced offline harassment while four others kidnapped and as many others faced threats ranging from verbal…
May Proves Worse Month For Journalists This Year
24 Attacks & Cases Reported Across Pakistan Threat Data Analysis – May 2022 A journalist in Baluchistan escaped unhurt in bomb explosion while reporting local…
A Journalist Killed For His Reporting In Punjab
Threat Data Analysis – April 2022 A journalist in Punjab province succumbed to his bullet wounds after he was hit in head while doing professional…
TV & Digital Journalists Escape Assassination Attempts
TV & Digital Journalists Escape Assassination Attempts Threat Data Analysis – March 2022 Two electronic media and one digital media journalists – two in Khyber…
Editor Arrested For TV Comments Against Federal Minister
Threat Data Analysis – February 2022 Political commentator and editor of private news agency NNI Mohsin Baig was arrested while a reporter in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
YouTuber Arrested For Uploading “Song”
Threat Data Analysis – January 2022 A YouTuber was arrested after he uploaded a song which locals did not like while a journalist’s home came…
Journalist’s Residence Attacked In Hangu
Threat Data Analysis – December 2021 Four cases of detention, attack on home and verbal threat journalists faced in federal capital city Islamabad and Khyber…
Two Citizen Journalists Killed While Others Face Threats, Harassment
Freedom Network Threat Data Analysis – November 2021 Two citizen journalists, one each in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, were killed while a journalist escaped…
A Journalist Murdered In Baluchistan & Three Others Escape Attempt To Kill In Islamabad
FN Threat Data Analysis – October 2021 A journalist in Baluchistan was killed in targeted bomb explosion while three others escaped attempt to murder in…
Journalists Abducted, Arrested, Detained & Harassed
FN Threat Data Analysis – September 2021 Journalists were abducted, detained, arrested, attacked and harassed as eight cases of threats against journalists were monitored and…
Two Journalists Escape Attempts On Lives
FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2021 Two journalists in Sindh province escaped attempt-to-kill as nine different threat categories in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Islamabad and…
In Five Out Of Seven Cases Taken Place Against Journalists Involved State Actors
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2021 Seven cases of threats ranging from detention to injuries, offline harassment and legal cases against journalists Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,…
Rajanpur Journalist Thrashed For Reporting ‘Funds Embezzlement’
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2021 A journalist in Rajanpur district in south Punjab faced “serious consequences’ for reporting alleged embezzlement in government development…
YouTuber Attacked Inside Home, Hamid Mir Censored
FN Threat Data Analysis – May 2021 Geo TV channel censored its renowned anchorperson Hamid Mir for his remarks while YouTuber and journalist Asad Ali…
21 Cases Of Murder, Legal Cases, Harassment & Verbal Threats Against Journalists During April 2021
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.
A Journalist Investigating Extrajudicial killing Murdered In Sindh
FN Threat Data Analysis – March 2021 A young reporter Ajay Kumar Lalwani was shot dead in Sindh province and another was detained in Karachi…
Digital Journalist Wounded In Balochistan Grenade Attack
FN Threat Data Analysis – February 2021 A digital journalist escaped attempt of murder in Balochistan and a mob attacked head offices of Jang newspaper…
Social Media Activist Goes Missing In Karachi
FN Threat Data Analysis – January 2021 A social media activist is among 14 other journalists who faced different categories of threats, including kidnapping, detention,…