Pakistan Press Foundation

Dozens of media freedom groups are calling on the Prime Minister of Somalia to rescind the arbitrary eviction order currently faced by the Shabelle Media Network. The eviction would place Radio Shabelle staff in immediate physical danger.

Press freedom groups join the Hong Kong Journalists Association to condemn the banning of Hong Kong reporters from covering Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Indonesia in early October.

On 11 October 2013, Ayub Khattak, reporter for a local newspaper in the Karak district of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province, was shot dead outside his home by two gunmen.

In a second joint appeal, over 60 IFEX members and partners again call for the release of Moroccan journalist Ali Anouzla, after terrorism-related charges were laid against him.

The government of Sindh province in Pakistan has recommended a 3-month ban on messaging and social networks to deprive terrorists and criminals of means of communication that are difficult to trace.

IFEX members call on Brazil’s Congress to promptly pass the Marco Civil bill and on President Roussef to ensure its due implementation, as a measure to protect the right of Brazilians to an Internet that is free and open to all.

Following the live broadcast of a standoff between police and an assailant in Islamabad, the Pakistan Supreme Court has directed the government to consider restrictions on live TV coverage.

During a protest in Lahore against alleged rigging in local elections, political party supporters used clubs and iron rods to attack various journalists.