Case Update Status

Faisalabad police registered the case against 50 PTI workers for harassing the journalists during the coverage.

Summary of Case

"Rail Bazaar, Faisalabad police on Thursday booked 50 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on charges of thrashing media persons, snatching and damaging their belongings. According to the media reports, the Electronic Media Association Vice President Munawar Iqbal said that the media persons were performing their duty at the GTS Chowk in Islamabad to cover the PTI rally. He additionally told the rally participants attacked the media persons with sticks and weapons, and they thrashed the journalists. He also said the attackers snatched and damaged a camera and a mobile phone of Bilal Sikandar and hurled life threats. Police booked fifty unknown workers in the case registered under sections 148,149,427 and 506-B of the Pakistan Penal Code with no arrest. Journalists also condemned the former state minister for information Farrukh Habib who did not intervene when PTI workers misbehaved with the journalists at a press conference to be addressed by Farrukh Habib. The journalists said that PTI workers damaged the cameras and also misbehaved with them amid the presence of Habib, who played a role of a silent spectator. They said the journalists would keep boycotting the functions of Farrukh Habib."

Category of Incident

Assault

ICCS Status

ICCS Divisions: 0201- Assaults and threats

ICCS Group: 02011- Assault

ICCS Class: 020112- Minor assault

ICCS Crime: Assaults and threats

Reported By

Daily Times

Date of incident

3

Month

March

Year

2023

Name of affected person

Bilal Sikandar

Other affected persons

Other journalists from different media organizations.

Name of affected organization

All media organizations

Other affected organizations

No other organization was affected

Action by

By PTI workers.

City

Faisalabad

Province

Reporters, Photojournalists and other media professionals.

Designation

Reporters, Photojournalists and other media professionals.

Professional category

Journalist

Age of victim

Not applicable

Marital Status

Compensation Details

Amount of compensation announced by government: No compensation announced

Date of compensation announcement by government: No compensation announced

Date of compensation paid by government: No compensation announced

Amount of compensation announced by others: No compensation announced

Date of compensation announced by others: No compensation announced

Date compensation paid by others: No compensation announced

FIR Details

Was FIR registered ?: No

Court Details

Was case investigated ?: No

Court where case was presented: Case is not in any court

Name of prosecuting lawyer: Case is not in any court

Date of first court hearing:

Date of last court hearing:

Status of court case: Case is not in any court

Journalist Union Status

PFUJ

APNS

CPNE

PBA

Media Source Status

Media reports:

Condemn Status

Colleague of victim

Not required to contact

Employer organization

Not required to contact

Press Club Status

Press club 1: Not required to contact

Press club 2: N/A

Press club 3: N/A