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Unrelenting assault on the media and other civic freedoms in Pakistan
Published at
01.07.2021
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- minority groups
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Attacks on Aurat March, minorities and critics highlight shrinking space for dissent in Pakistan
Published at
02.04.2021
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
Targeting of human rights defenders and enforced disappearances in Pakistan continue
Published at
14.12.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
Activists and journalists facing harassment, being forcibly disappeared or killed in Pakistan
Published at
21.08.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
Pashtun activists targeted amid pandemic while press increasingly muzzled in Pakistan
Published at
12.05.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- HRD killing
- protest
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Activists disappeared or arrested in Pakistan while media faces restrictions and threats
Published at
08.01.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Lack of accountability for Pashtun rights protesters killed and injured in North Waziristan
Published at
04.07.2019
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- surveillance
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Civil society groups denied registration while journalists and activists are being silenced
Published at
01.03.2019
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- CSO closure
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Civil society says shutting down of international NGOs an ‘attack on civic freedoms’
Published at
17.10.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- women
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Blatant attempts to manipulate elections and assault civic freedoms, says Pakistani civil society
Published at
23.07.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities
Published at
01.05.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- political interference
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained