
Search results


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
Blogger Murdered in Pakistan
Published at
11.07.2016
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption
- excessive force

Authorities in Pakistan shut down critical women's rights group
Published at
02.11.2016
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- office raid
- CSO closure
- surveillance
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- non state actors

Little room for dissent in Pakistan: Civic freedoms under constant attack
Published at
12.05.2017
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- bureaucratic restriction
- non state actors

Sounding the alarm over sharp increase in enforced disappearances
Published at
08.01.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment

Human rights activists abducted and ill-treated for protesting against illegal occupation of lakes
Published at
25.01.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- intimidation
- harassment
- environmental rights
- protest

Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities
Published at
01.05.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- censorship
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- 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:
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on journalist
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- self censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- political interference
- non state actors

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

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
- bureaucratic restriction
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted

Pashtun activists targeted amid pandemic while press increasingly muzzled in Pakistan
Published at
12.05.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- harassment
- journalist detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- political interference
- protest disruption
- women
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Activists and journalists facing harassment, being forcibly disappeared or killed in Pakistan
Published at
21.08.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained

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

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:
- torture/ill-treatment
- intimidation
- harassment
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- LGBTI
- women
- prevention of protest
- minority groups
- protest

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
- censorship
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted

Civil society slams harassment of journalists, proposed media law, stifling of protests in Pakistan
Published at
28.09.2021
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- women
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance

Pakistani journalists, activists remain at risk while new restrictions against online dissent passed
Published at
03.03.2022
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- women
- HRD prosecuted

Journalists and critics continue to be targeted despite political transition in Pakistan
Published at
16.08.2022
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained

Authorities in Pakistan continue harassment of journalists, persecution of activists and stifling of protests
Published at
31.12.2022
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- harassment
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Pakistan: Authorities bring terrorism charges against protesters, arrest the opposition and target the media
Published at
24.05.2023
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained