RSF asks Pakistani court to rescind warrant for editor’s arrest

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Pakistani judicial officials to respect the rule of law by rescinding a warrant for the arrest of Cyril Almeida, the deputy editor of Dawn, the country’s leading English-language daily, in connection with an interview with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The high court in the eastern city of Lahore issued the “non-bailable arrest warrant” on 24 September on the grounds that Cyril Almeida failed to respond to a summons to appear at a hearing

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