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Afghanistan: 257 media outlets closed in 100 days since Taliban takeover
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 24 (ANI): At least 257 media outlets have closed in Afghanistan due to financial challenges as well as restrictions on the media since the Taliban take over Kabul in August, according to newly formed media watchdog, Nehad Rasana-e-Afghanistan (NAI).
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New media watchdog, Nehad Rasana-e-Afghanistan, formed in Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 19 (ANI): A new media watchdog, Nehad Rasana-e-Afghanistan has been formed in Kabul.
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Pakistani journalists 'targeted' by cyber law: Report
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 3 (ANI): At least 23 Pakistani journalists have been targeted under the country's draconian cyber-crime law in the last two years, a media watchdog has said.
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Why Reporters Without Borders deems Imran Khan a 'press freedom predator':
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], July 11 (ANI): An international media watchdog report, released earlier this week, has listed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on a list of the world's 37 worst rulers in the area of press freedom.
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Pakistan unsafe for women journalists
Updated : 4 years, 10 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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Russia slaps new fines on Facebook, Telegram over failure to remove illega
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 11 (ANI/Sputnik): A Moscow district court on Thursday slapped additional multi-million-ruble fines on Facebook and Telegram for failing to remove banned content in accordance with the Russian media watchdog's requirements, Zulfiya Gurinchuk, the court's spokeswoman, tol
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Media watchdog calls China as biggest jailer of journalists
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], April 21 (ANI): China continues to take internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda to unprecedented levels making it one of the world's worst countries for journalists and the 'biggest jailer' of scribes, according to a latest report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Global media watchdog asks Pakistan to conduct 'credible' probe into killi
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Global media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Saturday demanded authorities in Pakistan's southern Sindh province to urgently conduct a "credible" investigation and arrest those responsible for this week's killing of a journalist.
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UK media watchdog imposes 50,000 pound fine on Khalsa TV for violent conte
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], February 13 (ANI): The UK media watchdog, Office of Communications (Ofcom) has imposed a fine of 50,000 pounds on Khalsa Television Ltd in Britain for a broadcasting a music video and a discussion programme that contained an indirect call for Sikhs living in the UK to commit vio
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UK watchdog revokes licences of ARY Network
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Feb. 3 (ANI): British broadcast media watchdog Ofcom has revoked all six licences held by ARY Network in the United Kingdom because it has "ceased to provide the licensed services".
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Media watchdog asks Pakistan to probe killing of journalist in Balochistan
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 15 (ANI): The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked Pakistan to investigate the killing of a journalist in the Balochistan province.
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