Pakistan expands prison terms for online defamation to 5 years
New York, February 22, 2022 – Pakistan authorities must immediately revoke a recently enacted ordinance that further criminalizes freedom of...
December 4, 2021
Pakistan: Female journalist and family attacked in Lahore
Pakistan based journalist, Ambreen Fatima and her husband, Ahmad Noorani. Credit: Times of Islamabad On November 24, unknown assailants targeted...
January 19, 2021
Pakistan journalists face charges for criticizing military
An archive photo of Pakistani journalists protesting against censorship. Criticizing Pakistan’s military has become riskier, and journalists are being singled...
August 21, 2020
Matiullah Jan: Critical journalists ‘routinely threatened’ in Pakistan
Photo- DW As a Supreme Court reporter in Islamabad, I have been caught in the crossfire between independent-minded judges and...
July 23, 2020
Matiullah Jan: Imran Khan’s government comes under scrutiny over journalist’s ‘abduction’
Photo- Facebook Matiullah Jan, a prominent Pakistani journalist and critic of the Pakistani military, returned home on Tuesday after a...
