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ISLAMABAD - A United Nations report published Monday points to a sharp increase in targeted killings of human rights defenders and journalists in Afghanistan since peace talks started between the Taliban and Afghan government last September. At least 11 rights activists and journalists have been killed in the period ...

The insidious problem of online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline with potentially deadly consequences, a new global survey suggests.Nearly three-quarters (73%) of female respondents to our survey – taken by 1,210 international media workers – said they had experienced online abuse, harassment, threats and attacks. And ...

One more journalist falls prey to the Covid-19 pandemic as Noida based scribe Pankaj Shukla breathed his last on Friday night (20 November). Hailed from Bareilly locality of Uttar Pradesh, Shukla (50) was admitted at JP Hospital, Noida where he succumbed to novel corona virus infection aggravated ailments.Shukla studied ...

India will celebrate its National Press Day tomorrow. It is celebrated every year on November 16 to commemorate the establishment of the Press Council of India which was formed in 1966.National Press Day is the symbol of a free, as well as the responsible press in India as Press ...

The Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders says that, in the first ten months of 2020, 28 journalists have been killed in the line of duty.Statistics published by the press watchdog show that 28 journalists have lost their lives while working, along with three media assistants.A further 247 journalists were ...

The Press Club of India on Sunday condemned the searches conducted by the National Investigation Agency at the Sringar office of Greater Kashmir, and said that investigators searching laptops and storage devices of journalists was a matter of great concern, the newspaper reported. The press body said it appeared ...

The BBC speaks to journalists in the region who say doing their job has become increasingly difficult. Source link

When a journalist is killed, only one in ten cases brings the perpetrator to justice. That’s according to research from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) which has been collecting data since 1992 and has found 883 journalists have been murdered in that time. A news conference in front ...

The US claims Haji Najibullah was involved in the 2008 kidnapping of a US journalist and two Afghan nationals.The US Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging Haji Najibullah, an Afghanistan national, with six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist and two Afghan nationals. ...

An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times, an Afghan journalist and a driver in Afghanistan federal authorities announced Wednesday.The charges against Haji Najibullah, 42, were in a six-count indictment unsealed ...