Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders
Illustration: Noor Us Safa Anik
For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
By Nirmal Jovial
On the evening of August 8, 2020, ten women from Subhash Mohalla in North East Delhi proceeded to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on a complaint they had made two days before. The complaint was that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality. The complainants said the men had abused Muslims, tied saffron flags near a mosque and burst crackers in celebration of a ceremony for the construction of a temple at faraway Ayodhya on August 5.
Women march in Sukkur on International Women s Day against Karo Kari, other abuses
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Shafqat Shah Congratulates Newly Elected Body Of Sukkur Press Club
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Sindh Sabha stages protest against forced disappearances
National
December 23, 2020
SUKKUR: The Sindh Sabha held a protest in Sukkur on Tuesday against forced disappearances of Sindhi and Seraiki nationalists and announced to organise a long-march from Karachi to Rawalpindi to highlight the issue.
The protesters and family members of the ‘forcefully-disappeared’ persons demanded release of their loved ones or to bring them in the courts of law, if they were wanted in any case. Addressing the protest rally at the Sukkur Press Club, the representatives of protesters said it was the prime responsibility of the state to protect its citizens and safeguard their fundamental rights.