Optimal Support Demanded For Commission To Counter Growing Violence Against Journalists In Sindh
KARACHI (8 May 2023) – Media and its stakeholders in Sindh have demanded a set of urgent initiatives to fast track the countering of impunity…
Category Archives: Violence against media
PM Shahbaz Sharif Reaffirms Commitment To Protecting Journalists
Press Release ISLAMABAD (13 December 2022) – Independent media watchdog organisation Freedom Network and multi-stakeholders advocacy entity the Pakistan Journalists’ Safety Coalition (PJSC) organised the…
FN Demands Probe Into Circumstances Leading To Killing Of Arshad Sharif
TV anchor Arshad Sharif, who was harsh critic of powerful military establishment after ouster of Imran Khan as prime minister through a vote of no-confidence,…
PM Shahbaz Sharif Urged To Amend Flawed Journalists’ Safety Law
Press Statement ISLAMABAD, 22 August 2022: The Pakistan Journalists Safety Coalition (PJSC) has declared the Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Act 2021 passed by…
PM Khan’s Govt Unleashes Scathing Attack On Asma Shirazi
Federal ministers and special assistant of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet joined hundreds of thousands of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists on Twitter to hound…
PMDA To Be ‘New Headquarter of Censorship’ in Pakistan: Briefing Paper
ISLAMABAD, 28 September 2021 – The federal government’s proposal to create a single centralized media regulator will adversely impact digital media, socio-political narratives and public…
No Progress Yet On Absar & Toor Attacks; Hamid Mir Still ‘Under Censorship’
ISLAMABAD, 29 June 2021: It has been more than a month now since YouTuber Asad Ali Toor was attacked inside his apartment and broadcast journalist…
New Proposed Regulatory Authority Aims To Control Media
Press Release ISLAMABAD: Freedom Network, Islamabad-based media watchdog, joined Friday other stakeholders to totally reject the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) calling it a…
Journalist Attacked For His Report On ‘Merit Policy Violation’ In Punjab Police
A senior officer of Punjab Police in Lahore in January 2021 hurled direct threat at Geo News channel’s crime reporter Ahmed Faraz for filing a report on “violation” of merit policy in transfers and postings the officer’s wife tweeted.
Social Media Activist Shot Dead In Balochistan
A social media activist in Barkhan district of restless Balochistan province was shot and dead on 23 July 2020 (Thursday evening) and a provincial government…
Journalists Reporting COVID19 Facing Torture & Harassment
Media rights organization Freedom Network condemned the federal and provincial authorities for arresting, threatening, intimidating and harassing journalist doing critical stories on COVID19 in the…
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…
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…
New Coalition Launched To Combat Impunity Of Crimes Against Journalists
ISLAMABAD, August 8, 2019: A new initiative has been launched to facilitate establishment of a collaborative national safety mechanism to combat impunity of crimes against…
Two Journalists Go Missing; Another Booked Under PECA Law
Freedom Network is extremely worried for two missing young journalists – reporter Matloob Hussain Mosavi and TV cameraman Syed Ali Mubashir Naqvi – who were…
Second Journalist Killed For Reporting On Drug
Hours after his story on arrest of alleged drug dealer was published in K2 Times newspaper in Haripur district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, young…
Reporting Takes Young Journalist’s Life In Punjab
Young journalist Abid Hussain in Dewan Sahib town in Borewala tehsil of Vehari district in Punjab province succumbed to injuries a day after he was…
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…