Pakistan Press Foundation

Twenty-seven IFEX members appeal for end to impunity in recent brutal attacks on journalists in Kazakhstan, including near-fatal attack on Luqpan Akhmedyarov in April.

In advance of the Formula 1, 50 IFEX members and partners call for detained activists and human rights defenders to be freed, including blogger and activist Abduljalil Al-Singace and human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, founder of IFEX member the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who is ailing in prison since starting a hunger strike on 8 February.

While the attackers have not been identified, it is believed they were targeting the offices of the Jang Group.

The president of the Tribal Union of Journalists said the owners of the shops had been threatened by militants, who told them to close their “un-Islamic” businesses.

Fifty IFEX members and other rights groups call on the Bahrain authorities to release from prison human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, whose life is at risk since beginning a hunger strike on 8 February.

The incidents were prompted by a talk show aired by Express News, in which two politicians debated the cause of a Balochistan leader’s murder.

Twenty-nine IFEX members have signed a letter to the Prosecutor General about the detention of editor Igor Vinyavsky, whose detention is believed to be politically motivated, calling for him to be released and for the evidence leading to his arrest to be made public.

Cable operators suspended Urdu-language broadcasts after being threatened by Baloch nationalists who accuse the news media of failing to provide coverage of their grievances.