Bob Dietz

Q&A: Pakistan’s Hamid Mir speaks about climate for press freedom following attack

August 6, 2014

In April, Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir was shot multiple times shortly after a CPJ delegation met with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who pledged to take several steps to improve journalist security. The investigation into the attack has yielded no accountability. And since the attack, two arrest warrants have been issued by courts in Quetta and Lahore against Mir,

Protecting Pakistan journalists: Trials, not tribunals, needed in Pakistan

April 22, 2014

Protecting Pakistan journalists Raza Rumi is alive. It appears Hamid Mir will survive. Shan Dahar is dead. For CPJ, most of this weekend was taken up learning about and responding to the assassination attempt on Geo TV’s most prominent anchor and commentator, Hamid Mir. CPJ quickly released a statement after the attack and fielded questions from international and Pakistani media

Q&A: Pakistan’s Hamid Mir speaks about climate for press freedom following attack

Protecting Pakistan journalists: Trials, not tribunals, needed in Pakistan

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