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PPF concerned over Murders of two Radio broadcasters

February 23, 2017
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Impunity, Media safety, Violence against journalists

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to the H.E. Danilo Medina Sánchez President of the Dominican Republic, expressed concern over the murders of radio broadcaster Luis Manuel Medina Pérez and producer Leónidas Antonio Evangelista Martínez during live broadcast on February 15, 2017 in the southeastern city of San Pedro de Macorís. PPF Secretary General Owais […]

PPF condemns the arson attack on Ukrainian journalist’s car

February 16, 2017
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Violence against journalists

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Volodymyr Groysman, Prime Minister of Ukraine, expressed concern over the arson attack on a journalist Sergei Guz’s car by unknown perpetrators in the morning of February 12, 2017 in Kamianske (Dneprodzerzhinsk). PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Ukraine to take […]

PPF seeks end to free expression violations in Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Venezuela

January 19, 2017
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Violence against journalists

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) voiced concern over the violation of media rights in Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. On Jan 13, PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali wrote to President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan regarding the detention and alleged torture of award-winning journalist Mehman Huseynov. Huseynov was picked up on Monday evening and held […]

Emotional well-being essential for journalists’ sanity and safety: TV reporters

January 19, 2017
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Violence against journalists

Karachi, Jan 18 (PPI): Majority of journalists witness traumatic events and should get regular psychological counseling and medical check-ups to ensure their physical as well as psycho-social safety and productivity. Media houses also need to develop implementation of safety protocols in the field and anti-sexual harassment policies for female journalists. These were some of the […]

Four bloggers, social media activists go missing in Pakistan

January 10, 2017
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Violence against journalists

Four bloggers and social media activists went missing from Islamabad, the federal capital, and Lahore and Nankana Sahib in Punjab province in Pakistan. Salman Haider, an academic, journalist and rights activist who also writes a blog for the website of DAWN newspaper, went missing on Friday, January 6, from Islamabad. Ahmed Waqas Goraya and Asim Saeed […]

Safety should be a concern for all media stakeholders in Pakistan

November 12, 2015
By PCOMS
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Impunity, Media safety, Violence against journalists

By Iqbal Khattak For the many gathered inside the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ Hall of Serena Hotel in Islamabad on 29 October in connection with the International Day to End Impunity (IDEI), it was a chilling account of what the family of slain young journalist Wali Khan Babar had gone through to fight impunity of crimes against…

Many journalists have died in the line of duty the worldover

February 26, 2015
By Sabir Shah
Daniel Pearl, Freedom of Expression, journalists killed, Violence against journalists

LAHORE: The sudden death in Islamabad of Maria Golovnina, the Bureau Chief of Reuters in Pakistan and Afghanistan, on Monday, has sparked a lot of speculation and the internet is already littered with rumours regarding the cause of her untimely demise. Her death is certainly very disturbing for the London-based Reuters, functioning since October 1851, […]

The post Many journalists have died in the line of duty the worldover appeared first on Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF).

Irshad Mastoi: Journalist’s murder probe complete

February 23, 2015
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Irshad Mastoi, Journalists murder, Violence against journalists

QUETTA: The Balochistan government has yet to decide whether or not it should make public a judicial commission’s report on the targeted killing of a senior journalist in Quetta. Irshad Mastoi, bureau chief of Online news distribution agency, as well as a reporter Abdul Rasul and an accountant Mohammed Younus were killed on August 28, […]

The post Irshad Mastoi: Journalist’s murder probe complete appeared first on Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF).

Pakistani university helps traumatized journalists

February 16, 2015
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Training and Capacity Building, Violence against journalists

Mental health carries a stigma in Pakistan, but one team is fighting the taboo to help journalists traumatized by their work covering the front line of the country’s battle with terrorists. Mental health carries a stigma in Pakistan, but one team is fighting the taboo to help journalists traumatized by their work covering the front […]

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Gauging media freedom

February 16, 2015
By Web Desk
Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Violence against journalists

THE report released on Thursday by Reporters Sans Frontières reminds us that politics around the world today has inevitably taken a heavy toll on media freedoms, squeezing both the public’s right to know and journalists’ duty to inform. “Press freedom … is in retreat in all five continents,” said the RSF 2015 World Press Freedom […]

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