12SharesThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will be honouring Dawn’s editor Zaffar Abbas with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award at the 2019 International Press Freedom Awards. According to the CPJ, The Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award is given to someone who has shown extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. The […]
2SharesKarachi An investigation carried out by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has revealed that micro-blogging website Twitter blocked a million tweets about Kashmir at the request of the Indian government. According to a report published by the CPJ, Twitter blocked hundreds of thousands of tweets in India since August of 2017. The tweets that […]
3SharesCommittee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Asia Programme Coordinator Steven Butler was stopped by Pakistan’s immigration authorities on his arrival in the country. According to a press statement issued by the organisation, Butler was informed that his name had been placed on a ‘stop list’. The statement said that immigration authorities barred Butler from entering Pakistan […]