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In Pakistan, the media is intimidated by both state and non-state actors
There are many “parties” working as “non-state actors” who may dislike your reports and come after you. In the interior of the province of Sindh, a journalist can be kidnapped and killed by an offended landlord called “wadero”. Updated: December 12, 2020 9:09:14 am
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (Reuters Photo/File)
On November 9, Pakistan’s Supreme Court granted bail to the owner of the country’s largest media group, the GEO, after a 10-month-long detention condemned by the rights groups as suppression of the press. The country’s not-so-legally-immaculate National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had accused Mir Shakilur Rehman of illegally leasing government land in 1986 and of having ownership rights transferred to himself in 2016 when ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was ruling Pakistan.
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A Cambodian fixer for Russian state-owned TV network Russia Today (RT) was released from prison Friday after completing his two-year term and paying 70 million riels (U.S. $17,200) in fines for “incitement,” although his case remains up in the air pending an appeal.
Rath Rott Mony fled Cambodia for Thailand to seek asylum after helping a visiting crew from RT to make a documentary about child prostitution in the country that was broadcast in October 2018. He was arrested by Thai police two months later and handed back to Cambodian authorities.
After a six-month investigation, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered Rath Rott Mony jailed for two years and fined him 35 million riels (U.S. $8,600) each to plaintiffs Keo Malai and Tep Sreylin, who said he had promised to help them solve a land dispute and open a shop if they made up stories about forcing their daughters into prostitution for the documentary, entitled “My Mother Sold Me.”
Journalists caught in the crosshairs, dissent brutally quashed, and big wins for African creatives and media stalwarts
Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, lays flowers for those killed while protesting his arrest, at the headquarters of his opposition party, Kampala, Uganda, 21 November 2020, STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images November in Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. An audio discussion about this piece is available here.
Traditionally a month to emphasise safety and justice for journalists, November certainly focused attention on the precarious conditions journalists across Africa have to contend with.
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File Image: Indian protesters hold placards in a rally condemning the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh, in Mumbai on September 6, 2017 (AFP via Getty Images)
A 37-year-old journalist was set on fire inside his own home in India and burned to death using hand sanitiser as an accelerant, police say, after he reported extensively on local corruption.
Rakesh Singh Nirbhik, who wrote for the local daily
Rashtriya Swaroop in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital in the state’s capital, Lucknow, late last month.
Nirbhik was targeted along with his friend, 34-year-old Pintu Sahu, by three men who forced their way into his house, police say. Sahu died at the scene.