LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday stayed the indictment of a journalist Rizwan-ur-Rehman Razi by a trial court in a case registered against him by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the charges of defamation and hate speech. The court asked the FIA to submit its reply to the petition within three weeks.
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Journalists and media workers in Pakistan continue to be silenced, harassed, and detained through several legal provisions. The historical and legal contexts behind these laws, however, must be understood to realise the significance of the law in censorship post-2018, writes Aftab Alam
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to immediately release and drop all legal proceedings against Rizwan-ur-Rehman Razi of Din News