Articles by Pakistan Press Foundation
NGOs to Bashar al-Assad: Implement your amnesty decree and free Syrian activist Mazen Darwish
The International Press Institute and 23 IFEX members sent a letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad calling for the release of lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish ahead of his court hearing on 25 March 2015.
Swaziland doesn’t want you to care about these government critics. Here’s why you should.
They don’t write for The New York Times or The Daily Mail. And the Swazi government is counting on just that to keep Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko in jail for criticizing the judiciary.
NGOs call on Bahraini government to drop Twitter charges against Nabeel Rajab
The international community’s response to the current charges leveled against prominent activist Nabeel Rajab has been monumental in denouncing the Criminal Investigations Department and the Bahraini government for their actions.
An increasingly polarised Pakistan behind a violent 2014 for media
In addition to the alarming but now familiar threats from militant groups, law enforcement agencies and political parties and groups, the Pakistani media became bitterly divided following the attempted murder of Hamid Mir, a popular television host of Geo News.
Media teams attacked while covering protest demonstrations in Pakistan
Activists of the opposition political party PTI harassed Geo News media teams in Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi. The ARY News channel also complained that workers of the ruling political partyhurled rotten eggs at their van while they were covering the PTI protest in Lahore.
Television news channel illegally suspended in Karachi
On 10 December, the private news channel Saama TV was forced to go off the air in several areas of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, for unknown reasons.
Cable operators suspend transmission of private TV channels in Balochistan province due to threat
The transmission of private TV news channels was suspended in Quetta and certain areas in Balochistan, Pakistan after the nationalist Baloch Students Organisation threatened the cable operators.
TV reporters arrested for exposing illegal transport of arms on Pakistan’s railways
The investigative reporting team of ARY News, a private TV in Pakistan, was arrested and criminally charged for an exposé on the transport of illegal arms and ammunition on state owned railways.