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Senior Pak journalist arrested on unspecified charges after controversial remarks against PM Khan
Islamabad, Feb 16 (PTI). Pakistani authorities arrested a senior journalist and government critic under unspecified charges on Wednesday, a week after he made controversial remarks on the prime minister in a…
Pakistani media mogul acquitted of graft charges
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Monday acquitted the country's biggest media mogul of corruption charges over land acquisitions dating back three decades, a case…
Turkey’s Erdogan threatens media with reprisals over ‘harmful’ content
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday threatened Turkish media with reprisals if they disseminated content that damaged the country's core values, in a move that might be a…
U.S. says it is concerned by ‘erosion of human rights’ in Hong Kong
(Reuters) - The U.S. said it remained seriously concerned by what it called "the continued erosion of human rights" in Hong Kong and urged authorities to release those who were…
Journalist body asks Pakistan to drop charges against 2 scribes, stop harassing media
Washington DC [US], August 11 (ANI): Pakistan authorities should immediately drop their probe into journalists Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat, and cease harassing members of the press in retaliation for…
Apple Daily crackdown “sent shudders across media industry”, says Hong Kong-based journalist
Hong Kong, June 21 (ANI): After 500 police officers raided the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong last week to arrest executives and top editors, a Hong-Kong based reporter on…
