カテゴリー: Journalist safety
Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed SheikhPakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death for the murder of the…
Letter by Islamist militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh tells of involvement in US journalist’s 2002 deathAfter 18 years of denial the British-born militant who was convicted and later acquitted of the beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl has …
Violence increases amid stalled Taliban peace talks, with Isis claiming it was behind earlier journalist killingAn Afghan journalist and human rights activist has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in western Afghanistan, the fifth journalist …
Rising violence by militants raises fears for press freedom after US troops withdraw in MayThe Taliban have denied they are deliberately targeting journalists in attacks amid the surge in violence throughout Afghanistan.The US watchdog Sigar (Special I…
Virgilio Maganes shot outside his home in what NUJP says is 18th such killing under DuterteA Filipino journalist who survived a previous attempt on his life by pretending to be dead has been killed outside his home, police have said..Virgilio Maganes, …
Choy Yuk-ling reportedly held over film about claims of police collusion with armed thugsHong Kong police have arrested a journalist at a public broadcaster, reportedly in relation to a documentary about the 2019 Yuen Long incident, when police were ac…
Ali Imran Syed’s disappearance in Karachi registered as ‘abduction’ by Pakistani policeA reporter working for Pakistan’s leading Geo News television has gone missing in the southern port city of Karachi, family and colleagues said.The Geo bureau chief …
Official told Matthew Carney she would be taken to undisclosed location over alleged visa breachAn ABC journalist has broken his silence on how he and his family were intimidated by Chinese authorities in 2018, including a warning that his 14-year-old …
Anwar Jan shot dead in home town of Barkhan in Balochistan provinceThe murder of a reporter known for exposing corruption has set off a wave of protests across Pakistan’s western Balochistan province, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be…
Matiullah Jan, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s institutions, was seized by heavily armed men before being let goA prominent Pakistani journalist known for his hard-hitting criticism of the country’s military and other institutions has been released a…
Editor of news website Rappler could face prison if convicted under ‘cyber libel’ lawA verdict will be issued on Monday following the controversial trial of one of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, in a case widely condemned as an attack on …
Sajid Hussain’s body was found in a river abroad after his work earned him death threats at homeIt was late at night on 30 April and Wajid Hussain was still in his office when the phone rang. A voice on the other end, 5,000 miles away from him in Pakis…
Journalists, intellectuals and dissidents are being threatened by Modi’s governmentAs a lethal virus scorches its way across continents, the leftwing Indian rights campaigner Gautam Navlakha has been reminding us of the words of Leonard Cohen, urging …
Move fuels fears former Soviet republic is clamping down on dissent before electionsTajikistan has said it is holding an independent journalist and government critic on extremism charges, fuelling concerns that the government of the ex-Soviet republic …
Reporters covering protests say officers using pepper spray and teargas, among other abusesJournalists covering the protests in Hong Kong are experiencing increasing violence at the hands of the police, according to media groups and first-hand accounts…