Pakistan Press Foundation

From lethal attacks on the media in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the case of the missing Hong Kong publishers, to a campaign to block government interference with Australia’s national broadcaster, we present a month of events that are changing the free expression landscape in the region.

IFEX members call on the Government of Bahrain to stop the judicial harassment of Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, and to allow human rights defenders to exercise their right to freedom of expression.

Not a single case relating to violence against media in 2015 resulted in arrests and prosecution, despite repeated assurances by government ministers.

IFEX members call for an immediate investigation into spying operations in Romania incompatible with free and democratic society.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on Din News television channel in Lahore and has warned of further agression against the media. The same group was behind the recent targeting of Dunya News in Faisalabad, Punjab provice.

The office of the Christian web television channel, Gawahi, was destroyed in a fire that erupted in the early hours of 23 November, in Karachi, the biggest city in Pakistan.

Members of the IFEX network and other concerned organisations demand justice for wrongful imprisonment of Mohammed Ismael Rasaool

One day after the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, journalist Zaman Mehsud was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his motorcycle in Tank, a district in Khyber Pahktunkhwa province, Pakistan.