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The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Wikimedia

Parliament must defend health of Turkish democracy

Over 40 organisations call for Turkey’s national assembly to end the national state of emergency, extended for three months on October 19th.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan addresses a news conference in Islamabad, 13 October 2016. Khan has confirmed authorities imposed a travel ban on journalist Cyril Almeida, AP Photo/B.K. Bangash

Travel ban imposed on leading Pakistani journalist after his story on the military

Cyril Almeida, a reporter for Pakistan’s leading English daily, was placed on an “Exit Control List (ECL)” to prevent him from leaving the country.

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Pakistan: TV channel reporter injured in attack in Balochistan

Mujeeb Tareen, a reporter for the Aaj News television channel, was attacked by three armed men after reporting on a police raid at a car showroom.

Asylum seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, 21 March 2014, AAP/Eoin Blackwell/via REUTERS (Faces pixellated at source)

Refugees, migrants and minorities: Asia Pacific September round-up

Award recognizes Iranian cartoonist held by Australia, surveillance in Thailand takes a most scary turn and a report on transgender women in Cambodia reveals shocking statistics.

Map of Pakistan locating Peshawar, capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa province, 2012, Reuters

Director of Pakistan’s largest media group kidnapped

Abid Abdullah, Director of Coordination for the Jang Group, was kidnapped at gunpoint by unidentified men in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Activists of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement clash with police in Karachi, 22 August 2016, AP Photo/Fareed Khan

Political party workers attack media houses in Karachi

Three TV cameramen covering a protest by the MQM political party in Karachi, Pakistan were injured when protesters turned violent.

Pakistani journalists chant slogans during a demonstration to condemn a suicide bombing in Quetta that killed dozens of people including some journalists, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Irshad Mastoi: A murder shrouded in mystery

Pakistani journalist Irshad Mastoi was murdered along with two colleagues. Why are the families of the victims no closer to achieving justice than they were two years ago?

Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines., Wikimedia

New cybercrime law is fundamentally flawed

IFEX members protest the impact on free expression of the overly broad bill, adopted on 12 August.