November 15, 2004

4 journalists arrested, one radio station closed

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) is concerned at a wave of arrests of journalists and closure of one of Pakistan’s few privately-run radio stations. The worldwide press freedom organisation

Newsman accused of blasphemy acquitted

Pakistani journalist Munawar Mohsin Ali who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for blasphemy was acquitted on November 11, by the Peshawar High Court in the North West Frontier Province

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