PRESS RELEASE On the 17th of April 2012, seven individuals, Awab Alvi, Sana Saleem, Faisal Kapadia, Nazim Haji, Naeem Sadiq, Noman Quadri and Ayesha Tammy Haq, through their advocates Haider...
Posted by | March 19, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release Cautious Celebration: Report Suggests Pakistan IT Ministry Withdraw Internet Censorship Plans On Monday, the 19th of March, the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) confirmed to Member...
Posted by | March 13, 2012
Access, global movement for digital freedom, have launched a campaign to pressure international companies not to bid for Pakistan's pending firewall. Our partners, in the campaign, Business Human Rights Resource...
Posted by | March 8, 2012
We sent a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudary on the 5th of March'2012. We have not received a response from his office. A copy of the letter is...
Posted by | March 7, 2012
PRESS KIT On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, the ICT R&D Fund under the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT), announced through newspapers and their website a Request For...
Posted by | March 6, 2012
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/technology/pakistan-builds-web-wall-out-in-the-open.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/02/pakistans-open-war-on-the-internet/ TIMES: http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,2108224,00.html Global Voices: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/02/28/pakistan-fighting-the-great-firewall/ The News Tribe: http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/09/21/suspension-of-cellular-services-seems-useless/ Firewall Looming: http://speakforchange.org/firewall-looming-in-pakistan/ Business Recorder: http://www.brecorder.com/br-research/44:44/2346:building-the-countrys-great-firewall/?date=2012-03-06 The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/pakistan-blocks-twitter-blasphemy-fears Hardnews: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2012/05/5201 The Express Tribune: http://tribune.com.pk/story/421505/pta-called-out-for-protecting-those-in-corridors-of-power/ Global Voices: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2014/08/13/human-rights-experts-pakistan-could-become-a-police-state-under-protection-ordinance/ Dawn: http://www.dawn.com/news/1108341/analysis-censoring-tweets-in-pakistan The Express...
Posted by | March 4, 2012
[<a href="http://storify.com/sanasaleem/pakistan-campaign-against-internet-censorship-in-p" target="_blank">View the story "Pakistan:Campaign against Internet Censorship in Pakistan" on Storify</a>] As we continue the campaign against internet censorship, we feel it is crucial to inform supporters in...
Posted by | March 1, 2012
On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, the ICT R&D fund under the Ministry of Information Technology, announced through newspapers and on their website, a request for proposal for a national...
Posted by | March 1, 2012
Efforts have been made by governments around the world, both authoritarian and democratic, to shut down Web sites, silence bloggers, filter out certain words or censor negative information.In order to highlight the...
Posted by | February 29, 2012
What would happen if a content filtration system such as the one The National ICT R&D Fund has advertised seeking proposals for were put in place? How would it affect the privacy...
