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Journalist body urges Pak govt to amend proposed legislation targeting scr
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): Raising concern about the new law that threatens press freedom in Pakistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar and Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi to amend the proposed legislation.
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Pakistan Saraiki Party members, journalists organise hunger strike camp to
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Rahim Yar Khan [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Journalists in Pakistan and the Pakistan Saraiki Party (PSP) members have organised a hunger strike camp outside the Bhong police station in the country's Punjab province to protest against the brutal torture of police on a local scribe.
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Pakistan unsafe for women journalists
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for journalists and the conditions for women scribes are even more appalling due to widespread online abuse, hatred and physical violence.
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Exiled Kashmiris urge UNHRC to act against Pakistan, accuse ISI of targeti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland), July 5 (ANI): Exiled Kashmiris and rights activists held a demonstration in front of the UN Human Rights Council building in Geneva to highlight Pakistan's systematic discrimination against Kashmiris in the region it has illegally occupied for over seven decades.
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Pakistan journalists' union announces countrywide protest against law curb
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 4 (ANI): The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has called for a countrywide protest on Monday against the adoption of the controversial Punjab Assembly Privilege Bill 2021, which envisages award of punishment to journalists over the publication of report
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World Sports Journalists Day: Tendulkar, Jay Shah extend wishes to 'irrepl
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah led the way to wish media personnel on the occasion of World Sports Journalist Day on Friday.
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Journalists up in arms against 'anti-democratic' media law in Pakistan's P
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Various journalist groups and unions from Pakistan have announced a rally outside the Governor House in the Punjab province on Friday to protest against the controversial bill, calling it 'anti-democratic'.
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Myanmar frees 2300 prisoners held for participating in anti-coup protests
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar] July 1 (ANI): Myanmar on Wednesday released about twenty-three thousand people held for participating in anti-coup demonstrations. Many journalists were also among those held by the military for taking part in the protests.
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Pak journalists' union seeks Imran Khan's clarification after official's r
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): A journalists' union has sought to know from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his position on free speech after his Special Assistant on Information Shehbaz Gill announced that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would control all the c
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Apple Daily's shutdown signals all-out attack by China on Hong Kong media,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 27 (ANI): The recent shutdown of the 26-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has signalled an all-out Chinese attack against media and free speech in the region, as the government has already announced that it would tighten rules about accrediting journalist
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Nicaragua's opposition leaders, journalists flee country amid increasing g
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Managua [Nicaragua], June 27 (ANI): An increasing number of high-profile opposition leaders, journalists and members of civil society are fleeing Nicaragua as the regime of President Daniel Ortega is waging an alarming political crackdown ahead of an election in November.
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Committee to Protect Journalists confer press freedom award on Hong Kong's
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 23 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said it will honour Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned founder of Hong Kong's Next Digital media company and Apple Daily newspaper, with the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
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