Imran Riaz Khan was detained by police at the Sialkot airport in the central Punjab province as he tried to leave the country over fears of his arrest. He has 4 million YouTube subscribers and more than 5 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The journalist, identified as Vimal Kumar Yadav, was allegedly shot dead at his home by unidentified assailants in the Raniganj Bazaar area of the district, police said earlier on Friday.
"In a state where journalists, police personnel are not safe,...a woman MLA doesn't find herself safe...even after this if Nitish Kumar makes visits to Delhi to become Prime Minister and talks about opposition unity, it is better if he resigns first and then competes for the Prime Minister's
Members of the Bihar Working Journalist Union on Friday hold a protest in Patna over the murder of a journalist in the Araria district. They asked the state government to ensure the safety of journalists across the state.
Hakeem Baloch, a journalist and a senior activist of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), who is based in the UK, told ANI that China has been investing heavily in the region for its own economic and military interests
International organisations have raised concern over the surge in the detention of journalists in Afghanistan. The media in Afghanistan is struggling to survive under Taliban as numerous radio and TV stations, as well as news agencies, have closed and as per estimates more than 6,000 journal
The Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in its latest findings revealed that more than 200 cases of violence and arrests involving journalists were recorded in the country.