Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety

Month: February 2020

The furious case of Twitter ‘violations’

KARACHI: The opponents of critical speech have found a new method of silencing expression online — this time in Twitter’s rules enforcement policies. On Feb 23 2018, feminist group Women’s Democratic Front (WDF) posted a tweet calling for public participation in a Women’s Day gathering. Two years later, Twitter locked the WDF account saying the […]

Police torture on journalist in Bara condemned

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Senior Vice-President Shamim Shahid has condemned police torture and maltreatment of a journalist from Khyber tribal district, Shah Nawaz Khan. Shamim Shahid has demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to take action against the police officials involved in torture of the Bara-based journalist. The PFUJ senior vice-president said it […]