Pakistan Press Foundation

Armed men on a motorcycle fired five to six shots at the Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) van of Samaa television. This is the third attack on the media just in the city of Karachi in September.

Unknown gunmen opened fired on the Geo News broadcast van, killing satellite technical engineer Arshad Ali Jaffery and wounding driver Anis Chauhan. There were two more attacks on journalists within 24 hours for which the motives are not yet clear.

Pakistani authorities have arrested the alleged killers of Baloch journalist Irshad Mastoi and two of his colleagues, who were murdered in August 2014.

IFEX members urge the UN Security Council to ensure the protection of journalists in Yemen in light of historic resolution.

Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.

Journalists in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province have been protesting against the police for falsely involving ten journalists in criminal complaints. Three of the journalists have been charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).

The Special Security Unit (SSU) of the police beat up journalists, reporters, photographers and cameramen while they were performing their professional duty outside the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday, 23 May 2015. The media personnel were covering the appearance of former home minister Sindh Dr Zulfiqar Mirza at the SHC for his bail application […]

Charged under the Sedition Act in Malaysia, internationally known political cartoonist Zunar could face 43 years in jail for a tweet.