Pakistan - Journalist receives death threat after "memogate" stories

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is concerned by a telephone death threat received three days ago by Mohammad Malick, editor of the Pakistani daily The News International, from a blocked number. The threat followed his newspaper's prominent coverage of the so-called “memogate” scandal, which led to the resignation of Pakistan's ambassador to the United States this week. “We ask the Pakistani authorities to take the telephone threats against Mohammad Malick seriously and to pay attention to his safety (...)

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